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*ḥVbVr- - spot on the skin, bruise, mark of violence
(SED I No. 111; Kogan 2011: 230)
Likely connected with Sem. *ḥbr ‘to paint, dye, mark’, *ḥVbr- ‘color, paint, mark’
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Akkadian
ibāru
- a mark of discoloration on the skin
(CAD I 1, AHw. 363)
Hebrew
ḥabbūrā
- wound, slash
(HALOT 285)
Hebrew
ḥăbarbūrōt
- skin specks
(HALOT 285)
Cf. a remarkable parallelism in Gez.
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
ḥäbrī
- wound
(DJPA 186)
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
ḥabburtā
- a mark of violence, wound, discoloring
(Jastrow 417)
Syriac
ḥbārtā
- wound
(LSyr. 212, SL 410)
Arabic
ḥibr-
- mark of beating; a healed wound
(Lane 499)
Geez
ḥəbərbəre
- eruption on the skin
(CDG 224)
Note a variant root with -n-: ḥənbərbəre ‘scab, scabby eruption on the skin’ [ibid. 236]
Mehri
ḥábə́r
- spot of a darker colour (on the skin)
(ML 165)
Soqotri
ḥǟber
- beauty spot, mole; big congenital black spot
(SSL 4 88)
note: Soqotri of Qalansiyya town-dwellers dialect