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Jeffery 1938 thinks that this value of the root ZKW/Y is the primary one, i.e., the one that Ar has preserved from Sem, while other meanings (treated under ↗zakā here) are from Aram.

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▪ DRS 8 (1999)#ZKW/Y–1 Ar zakā, zakiya ‘croître, grandir, prospérer, être pur, probe’; Mġr zkā ‘gonfler en cuisant (couscous)’

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▪ DRS sees ‘croître, grandir, prospérer, être pur, probe’ as one semantic unit but does not explain why/how ‘croître, grandir, prospérer’ should be seen together with ‘être pur, probe’.
▪ The value ‘to grow, increase’ seems to be attested in Ar only. For ‘purity’ (and ‘alms’) which, as an Aramaism, ultimately goes back to Sem *ḎKW/Y rather than to *ZKW/Y, see ↗zakā ↗zakāẗ.
▪ For a discussion of the complex entanglements within the root, see disambiguation entry ↗ZKW/Y.

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deriv

► zakkà, vb. II, 1 to increase, augment, make grow: ints.?; 2 for another meaning ↗zakā.
► ʔazkà, vb. IV, to cause to grow; to grow (s.th.): caus.

► zakāʔ, n., 1 growth: vn.; 2 for another meaning ↗zakā.

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