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wiqr وِقْر , pl. ʔawqār
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ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√WQR
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n.
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heavy load, burden – WehrCowan1976.
conc
▪ The item seems to be the non-figurative twin of the value ‘grave, sedate, dignified’ and derivatives, cf. ↗waqūr).
▪ Related to other items of ↗√WQR, such as ‘to break, fracture, crack (esp. a bone)’ (↗waqara) and ‘cavity, hollow’ (↗waqr)?
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▪ Bergsträsser1928: (waqur ‘grave, sedate, dignified’) Akk waqru, Hbr yāqār ‘rare, expensive, precious, valuable, dear’; Aram ʔīqar nēqar ‘be heavy’; SAr wqr ‘honour’. The Sem root has two meanings: ‘1. valuable, precious, dear; 2. heavy’
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▪ See above, section CONC.
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►ʔawqara, vb. IV, 1 to load, burden, overload (a beast of burden); 2 to oppress, weigh heavily (upon s.o.); 3 to be overloaden with fruit (tree): *Š‑stem, caus.

▪ For figurative use of ‘heavy’ in the sense of ‘grave, dignified, sedate; venerable’, see ↗waqūr. – For other (related?) items of the root, cf. ↗waqara and ↗waqr, as well as, for the whole picture, ↗√WQR.
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