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▪ Etymologically, ‘grave, sedate, dignified’ and derived meanings seem to be figurative use of ‘heavy load, burden’ (↗wiqr) or the result of a semantic shift from Sem *‘precious, valuable’.
▪ 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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►waqara, i (yaqiru) (waqr), vb. I, 1 ↗waqara; – 2a to be settled, certain, an established fact; 2bto stay, remain: denom. from obs. ^†waqur ‘grave, heavy’ ? | waqara fī nafsih\ḫaladih, expr., to him it was an established fact (ʔanna that…); waqarat il‑ṣūraẗ fī nafsih, expr., the picture stood vividly before his mental eye.
►waqura, u (yawquru) (waqār, waqāraẗ), vb. I, to be dignified, sedate, staid, grave: denom. from obs. ^†waqur ‘grave, heavy’ ?
►waqqara, vb. II, 1 to respect, honor, revere, reverence; 2 to render grave or sedate: D‑stem, caus.
►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.

►waqār, n., 1a gravity, sobriety, dignity, deportment commanding respect; 1b sedateness, dignified bearing
►tawaqqur, n., dignified bearing: vn. V.
►muwaqqar, adj., 1a respected, held in respect; 1b venerable, reverend: PP II.

▪ For the item’s non-figurative twin, see ↗wiqr ‘heavy load, burden’. – For other (related?) items of the root, cf. ↗waqara and ↗waqr, as well as, for the whole picture, ↗√WQR.

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