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▪ Etymology obscure. Zimmern1914: 53 is probably right in assuming that Ar ṭarfāʔ and Akk ṭarpaʔ‑ (var. ṭarpiʔ‑, kind of tamarisk) are somehow related, but it remains unclear how precisely this would be the case, given that the Akk word may be a borrowing from a foreign language.
▪ Militarev&Stolbova2007 see Akk ṭarpaʔu together with Aram words for ‘leaf’. Adding to this juxtaposition that of Klein1987 who relates the Aram ‘leaf’ to the notion of ‘plucking’, one can be tempted to draw a line from CSem *ṬRP ‘to tear, pluck, seize’ to Hbr Aram ṭrp ‘to pluck’, to ‘(freshly plucked) leaf’, to ‘(certain type of tree,) tamarisk’. But the last shift of meaning in this chain would still remain difficult to be made plausible.
▪ In contrast, Kogan2011 reconstructs protSem *ṭarpaʔ‑ ‘kind of tree’.
▪ Any relation to other items of the root ↗ṬRF, such as ↗ṭarf ‘eye’, ↗ṭaraf ‘extremity, outermost part’, or ↗ṭurfaẗ ‘novelty’?

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▪ DRS 10 (2012) #ṬRP-9: Akk ṭarpaʔ- sorte de tamaris.
▪ (?) Klein1987: Hbr ṭārap̄ ‘to tear to pieces, rend; to pluck’, Aram ṭᵊrap̄ ‘to tear, seize’, ṭᵊrêp̄â ‘torn animal, torn flesh’, Ar ṭarafa ‘to graze (said of a camel)’, ṭarufa ‘to be freshly plucked’; Hbr ṭārāp̄ ‘fresh-plucked’, hence also ‘fresh leaf’ and nHbr ‘leaf, blade’, Aram Syr ṭarp̄â ‘fresh leaf’.
▪ Militarev&Stolbova2007 (in StarLing, Sem#1507): Akk ṭarpaʔu ‘a variety of tamarisk’, PalAram ṭrp, ṭrb, Syr ṭarp̄ā, UrmAram ṭarp, Mand a-ṭirp ‘leaf’. Outside Sem: (EChad) Bidiya tìrìp ‘kind of tree’.

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▪ Militarev&Stolbova2007 (in StarLing, Sem#1507) reconstruct protSem *ṭarpaʔ- ‘tamarind [sic!]; leaf’ and EChad *tirip- ‘kind of tree’, both from a hypothetical AfrAs *ṭarip- ‘tree’.
▪ For all other aspects see above, section CONC.

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