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Probably a loan-word from Aram qidrā, Syr qedrā ‘pot’, which is perhaps akin to Hbr qāḏar ‘to be dark, be gloomy’ (which in turn seems to be akin to Ar ↗qaḏira ‘to be dirty’). Zimmern considered it »wahrscheinlich« (likely) that the Aram words depend (with metathesis) on Akk diqāru, a kind of ‘bowl with round bottom, for serving and heating’ (CAD). Others do not mention this idea, reconstruct a Sem *ḳidr‑ ‘earthenware’ and, on account also of some (though doubtful) ECh ‘cognates’, reconstruct AfrAs *ḳ˅dur‑ with the likely meaning of ‘clay vessel’ as the word’s ultimate origin. The latter, however, may be related to a hypothetical AfrAs *ḳ˅ḏa/ur‑ ‘to be dirty’ (the cooking pot being called after its bottom which is ‘dirty’ from the fire).

hist

▪ eC7 Q 34:13 yaʕmalūna la-hū mā yašāʔu min maḥārība wa-tamāṯīla wa-ǧifānin ka-’l-ǧawābi wa-qudūrin rāsiyātin ‘they made for him whatever he wanted: palaces and statues, basins as large as water troughs, and cauldrons hard to move’

cogn

▪ Zimmern 1914: Akk diqāru ‘(bowl with round bottom, for serving and heating)’, Aram qidrā, qedrā ‘pot’.
▪ In addition to the items given by Zimmern 1914, Zammit 2002 mentions also Hbr qādēr ‘pot’.
▪ Orel/Stolbova 1994 #1618 (and Militarev/Stolbova 2007 #277): Hbr qədērā, Aram qidrā, Ar qidr, Ḥrs qeder, Mhr qāder. – Outside Sem: gǝ̀dǝ̀ryá ‘clay pot’, gùdùr ‘big pot’ in 2 in ECh languages. – Cf. also Orel/Stolbova 1994 #1630: Ar qḏr IPFV a, u, with outside Sem cognate in goder ‘faeces, silt’ in 1 ECh language (no longer listed in Militarev/Stolbova 2007).

disc

▪ Zimmern 1914 thinks that Akk diqāru is »probably« the source of Aram qidrā, qedrā, which was borrowed into Ar as qidr, qidraẗ.
▪ Klein 1987 lists (all post-BiblHbr) qᵊḏērāh ‘pot’ (from this the dimin. nHbr qᵊḏērîṯ ‘small pot’), qaḏrâ ‘pot’ (from Syr qaḏrâ, related to Hbr qᵊdērāh), qaddār ‘potter’ (n.prof., properly back formation from qᵊdērāh; from qaddār is qaddārûṯ ‘potter’s craft, pottery’). Perhaps akin to Hbr qāḏar ‘to be dark, be gloomy’ (related to Ar ↗qaḏira ‘to be dirty’).
▪ Orel/Stolbova 1994 #1618: From the evidence in Sem, the authors reconstruct Sem *ḳidr‑ ‘earthenware’; from the ECh items they derive from ECh *gudur‑ ‘(big/clay) pot’; as an ancestor of both they suggest AfrAs *ḳüdur‑ ‘vessel’. In the internet version in StarLing (The Tower of Babel), Militarev/Stolbova 2007 #277 retain the reconstruction of Sem *ḳidr‑ ‘earthenware’ but add the remark »correspondences doubtful« and set a question mark behind their (slightly modified) reconstruction of AfrAs *ḳ˅dur‑ ‘clay vessel’.
▪ Orel/Stolbova 1994 #1630 relates Hbr qdr ‘to be dark to the Ar qḏr (IPFV a, u) ‘to be dirty’, on account of which they hypostasize Sem *ḳ˅ḏar‑ / *ḳ˅ḏur‑ ‘to be dirty’. The latter, they say, is cognate with ECh *g˅ǯwar‑ ‘faeces, silt’. On account of the Ar and the ECh items they reconstruct AfrAs *ḳ˅ǯor‑ ‘dirt, to be dirty’. In the updated internet version, there are no longer AfrAs reconstructions, but only #950 Sem *ḳ˅d˅r‑ ‘to be dirty’ (on account of Hbr qdr ‘to be dark’) and #1793 Sem *ḳ˅ḏar‑ / * ḳ˅ḏur‑ ‘to be dirty’.

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deriv

► qidraẗ, pl. qidar, n., pot; jug: clearly related to qidr, but perhaps borrowed directly from Aram qidrā, Syr qedrā ‘pot’ rather than derived from Ar qidr.

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