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▪ ? nominalized nsb-adj., lit. *‘returner, belonging to the act of unwinding, unraveling’ (cf. also the n.instr. makarr ‘reel’ which clearly is from ↗²karra), or based on ClassAr ^†²karr ‘rope, cable’ and/or ^†³karr ‘cord, thong’ ? In any case, the word seems to be dependent, in one way or other, on ↗²karra ‘to return’ (incl. ↗karrara ‘to repeat’, ↗karraẗ ‘one time’, and other related items). – See below, section DISC.
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▪ WehrCowan1976 lists a (specifically EgAr) word meaning ‘spool, bobbin, reel’ as kurrāriyyaẗ (with -rrār-), while the (obviously same) word is spelt kurā̆riyyaẗ (with -rā̆r-) and said to mean ‘ball (of string, wool etc.)’ in BadawiHinds1986. The value ‘spool, bobbin, reel’ fits very nicely the meaning ‘to unravel, unwind’ given for the EgAr vb. I karr (u, vn. karr, kararān) in BadawiHinds1986.¹ ‘Spool, bobbin, reel’ and ‘to unravel, unwind’ look as if they could be related either to ↗²karra ‘to return, come back, repeat’ (implying a circular movement, as also seems to be the case in the n.instr. makarr ‘reel’ which is s.th. like a fuṣḥà parallel to EgAr kur(r)āriyyaẗ)² or, perh. even more likely, to the obsol. ^†²karr (pl. kurūr, ? ʔakrār, kirār) ‘rope, cable (for ascending the palm-tree) | rope used as a ladder’ and/or ^†³karr (pl. ʔakrār) ‘cord, thong which holds together the two extremities of the camel’s saddle | cable’. – In contrast, the value ‘ball (of string, wool etc.)’ given in BadawiHinds1986 for EgAr kurā̆riyyaẗ (with rā̆r ) may also point in the direction of the reduplicated 2-rad. root ^†⁴karkara ‘to collect, pile up, heap up, blow into a ball (wind the clouds)’ (see ↗^†KRKR_4), and ↗kuraẗ ‘ball’ in general (a notion, though, that one may also sense in ‘rope, cable, cord’ as well as in ^†‘carpet, mat’ and ^†‘cistern, subterranean reservoir’, see root entry ↗KRː (KRR), due to the folding, scaffolding, twisting, heaping up, gathering, etc. implied in these items).
▪ Cf. also the obsol. ClassAr ^†karāri ‘cowrie used as an amulet’, analyzed by Ullmann (WKAS I 1970) as a »concretized imperative ‘Bringback, one who brings back’, designation of a pearl, shell used as a love-charm in the spell yā karāri kurrī hi ʔin ʔadbara fa-ruddī hi«, based on ↗²karra ‘to (make) return, come back, etc.’. BK1860 quotes the same spell in a slightly longer version, translating the initial yā karāri as ‘ô boule!’, thus insinuation a connection with ↗kuraẗ ‘ball’.
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1. E.g., bi-ykurr il-ḫēṭ min il-bakaraẗ ‘he’s unwinding the thread from the spool’; fig., ‘to spill out, spout forth’, e.g., saʔalt-u ʕan ʔanwāʕ is-samak in-nīli q͗ām karr-ĭ-li talătīn ʔism ‘I asked him about the varieties of Nile fish and he upped and rattled off thirty names’. As an intr. vb., EgAr karr means ‘to become unravelled’, as in il-tirikōh karr ‘the knitting has become unravelled’, or ‘to run (of a stocking)’ – BadawiHinds1986. 2. Cf., e.g., the ints. formation ClassAr ^†karrār ‘qui revient souvent, qui se répète; qui dans le combat a l’habitude de simuler la fuite et puis de revenir à l’attaque’ (BK1860).

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►makarr, pl. ‑āt, n., reel: n.instr., from ↗²karra.

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

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