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large jar – WehrCowan1979. / large handle-less earthenware jar used for storing and filtering water (BadawiHinds1986), wide in the upper part and nearly pointed at the bottom (Lane).

conc

Of unknown origin, probably Sem – Rolland2014a.

hist

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cogn

▪ DRS 8 (1999)#ZW/YR-3: Ar zīr, Mhr zayr, Jib zir ‘grande jarre à eau’, Sab zwyr (pl.) ‘distributeur d’eau’?.
▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#2629: (outside Sem) Eg i͗ḏr.t ‘kind of vessel’.

disc

▪ On account of the Ar and Eg evidence, Orel&Stolbova1994#2629 reconstruct Sem *zīr- ‘big vessel’, Eg i͗ḏr.t (ḏ- <*ʒ- before a front vowel?) ‘kind of vessel’ (TLA: ‘ein Ölgefäß’), from AfrAs *ʒir- ‘vessel’. TLA, however, following Hoch1994, thinks the Eg word is a borrowing from Sem.
▪ In EgAr, the zīr figures in some proverbs/popular sayings, like ʔādi z-zīr wi-ʔādi ġaṭā-h (lit., here is the zīr and here is its cover – part of a children’s rhyme) ≈ ‘here is what clinches it!’ (in presenting proof); dawwar iz-zīr ʕala ġaṭā-h lamma ltaqā-h (lit., the zīr search for its cover, so/until it found it) ≈ ‘he met his match’; kasar zīr warā-h (lit., he broke a zīr behind him) ≈ ‘he said good riddance to him’ – BadawiHinds1986.

west

▪ Lokotsch1927#2222: Ar zīr ‘large jar’ [similar in form to the Lat dolium, Grk píthis; ZDMG 50: 631] > Ital ziro ‘id.’.

deriv

► EgAr mazyaraẗ, pl. mazāyir, n.f., cupboard-like stand on which a zīr is placed: n.loc. – BadawiHinds1986.

For other values connected to the root, cf. ↗zīr (disamb.), ↗zīr_2, ↗zīr_3, and ↗ZYR; cf. also ↗zār and ↗ZWR.

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