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▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#322: Hbr bāṣāl, ‎Syr beṣlō, SAr bṣl, Ḥrs beṣel, Mhr beṣāl, Śḥr beṣal. Outside Sem: ? ḅušal ‘kind ‎of grass’ in a WCh language.
▪ DRS 2 (1994) #BṢL, 1 Aram bᵊṣal ‘peler, fendre’; Ar baṣṣala ‘peler’; Gz baṣṣala ‘déchirer’. 2 Akk bisr-, bišr- ‘poireau’; Hbr (pl.) bᵊṣālīm, JP buṣlā, baṣlā, Syr beṣlā, Ar baṣal, SAr Soq bṣl, biṣle, Mhr beṣalôt, Gz baṣal, Te bäṣäl ‘oignon’. -3-5 […].
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▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#322: Given the cognates in several Sem languages, it is safe to ‎assume that the word goes back to Sem *baṣal‑ ‘onion’. Outside Sem, only the word ḅušal ‘kind ‎of grass’ in a WCh language seems to be a possible correspondence (the authors reconstruct: ḅušal < WCh *ḅucal < *buc̣al, with shift of emphatization). If this is to be accepted, the AfrAs ‎ancestor of the Sem and WCh forms may be reconstructed as AfrAs *buc̣al‑ ‘plant’.¹ . In this case, the *a in Sem ‎‎*ba ṣal‑ can be explained as a regular sound shift, to be observed also elsewhere, from AfrAs ‎‎*u to Sem *a after a labial.
▪ Outside Sem, Borg2021#38 (b-ṣ-l) compares Dem mḏ(w)l ‘onion’ (DG 195) ~ Copt ⲙϫⲱⲗ/ⲉⲙϫⲱⲗ ‘onion’ (Crum 1939: 213b)).
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1. The ‎AfrAs word may in turn be derived from *buc̣‑ ‘sand, earth’.

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►baṣal al-faʔr, n., sea onion (Scilla verna)

►baṣalī, adj., bulbous: nsb-formation
►buṣaylaẗ, pl. -āt, ~ al-šaʕr, bulb of the hair (anat.): dimin. formation

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