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▪ Landberg1920 thinks it is onomatopoetic, to be compared to √ḪRː (ḪRR) (↗ḫarra ‘to murmur, bubble, gurgle; to snore’).
▪ Orel&Stolbova1994 derive it from an AfrAs *qor- ‘to shout, say’ (with assumed cognates in Berb, Eg, and some WCh langs).
▪ Tropper2008 considers a possible relation of Ug ḫwr ‘to be weak (horse)’ (and, implicitly, also of Ar ↗ḫawira) with the animal’s uttering such a sound.

hist

▪ HDAL: earliest attestation in this sense 563 AD
▪ (ḫuwār ‘lowing, mooing’) Q 20:88 fa-ʔaḫraǧa lahum ʕiǧlan ǧasadan lahū ḫuwārun ‘so he produced for them a calf, an effigy that produced a lowing sound’

cogn

▪ DRS 10 (2012) #ḪWR-5 Ar ḫāra ‘mugir, beugler’: without cognates in Sem.
▪ Orel&Stolbova1994 #2044: AfrAs *qor- ‘to shout, say’ > Sem *ḫūr- ‘to bellow’ (reconstructed only from Ar ḫāra u), based on biconsonantal *ḫ˅r-. Cognates in Berb *kur- (Ahg kur-ət) ‘to call’, Eg ḫr ‘to say’ (OK), WCh *qwar- (gwar ‘to groan’; kwar, gwar-al ‘to shout, cry, call’ in some WCh idioms).

disc

▪ Orel&Stolbova1994 #2044: Sem *ḫūr- ‘to bellow’ (reconstructed only from Ar ḫāra u), based on biconsonantal *ḫ˅r-, Berb *kur- (Ahg kur-ət) ‘to call’, Eg ḫr ‘to say’ (OK), WCh *qwar- (gwar ‘to groan’; kwar, gwar-al ‘to shout, cry, call’) < AfrAs *qor- ‘to shout, say’.

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deriv

► ḫuwār, n., lowing, mooing: vn. I

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