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▪ DRS 2 (1994)#BHM-2 groups the value ‘obscurité, ténèbres’ together with Ug bhmt ‘bétail, vaches’, Hbr bᵉhēmā ‘animal’, EmpAram bhmyth (?), bhmth (?) ‘bétail’, Mand bʔhymʔ ‘âne’, Ar bahmaẗ ‘agneau, chevreau, veau’, bahīmaẗ ‘bête, animal’, Tham bhm (pl.) ‘agneaux’, MġrAr bhīm ‘âne’; Ar buhmaẗ ‘obscurité, ténèbres; bloc de pierre’.
▪ In our view, however, the semantics would rather suggest a grouping unter DRS 2 (1994)#BHM-1, i.e., together with Ar ʔabham ‘qui ne sait pas parler: barbare, étranger’, Gz bəhām, bəhum ‘muet’, bəhma ‘être muet’, Tña Te bähamä ‘être muet’.

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▪ Semantically, it seems easier to connect the value ‘jet-black’ to BHM_1 ‘obscurity, darkness’ than (as suggested by DRS ) to BHM_2 ‘animal, cattle’
▪ No connection with BHM_3 ‘thumb, toe’.

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Cf. also
► ʔabhama, vb. IV, to make obscure, dubious, unintelligible: caus. (from bahīm ?).
► tabahhama, vb. V, and ĭstabhama, vb. X, to be obscure, ambiguous, unintelligible: denom. (from bahīm ?).
► ʔibhām _1, n., obscurity; vagueness, ambiguity: vn. IV.
► mubham, adj., obscure, dark, cryptic, doubtful, vague, ambiguous; unintelligible: PP IV.

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