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▪ [gnrl] : n.vic. of ↗²karra ‘to turn around and attack; to return, come back, recur; to withdraw, retreat, fall back; to attack, bear down (ʕalà upon)’.
▪ [v3] is originally *‘one instant of returning, one recurrence’, hence ‘once’.
▪ [v4] probably developed from adverbial use of [v3]: *‘once > every now and then > often > very frequently > [exaggerating] many many times > a hundred thousand times > a hundred thousand’.
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hist

▪ eC7 karraẗ (turn, another chance, another time; assailment, overrunning an enemy) Q 17:6 ṯumma radadnā la-kum-u ’l-karraẗa ʕalay-him ‘then we returned the scales and allowed you a turn against them [lit., then We gave back the turn to you against them]’.
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cogn

▪ ↗²karra
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disc

▪ See above, section CONC.
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west

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deriv

►karraẗᵃⁿ, adv., 1 once; 2 sometimes, at times; 3 at a time
►karraẗᵃⁿ ʔuḫrà, adv., a second time, once more;
►karraẗᵃⁿ baʕdᵃ karraẗ, adv., repeatedly, time and again

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗¹karra, ↗²karra, ↗karrara, ↗karār, and ↗kur(r)āriyyaẗ, as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗KRː (KRR). – Cf. also ↗KRKR, ↗KRW, ↗KRW/Y, and ↗KRY.

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