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*parḫ- - chick, brood, young of a bird
(SED II No. 179)
Almost certainly connected with this this root are the MSA terms for “bastard”: Mhr.
farḫ
, Jib.
fɛrḫ
, Soq.
forḥ
, likely Arb. borrowings, cf.
farḫ
‘bastard’ in dialect of Hadramaut
Words
Hebrew
ˀäprōaḥ
- chick
(HALOT 80)
Hebrew
pirḥaḥ
- brood
(HALOT 967)
Attested in the difficult passage Job 30.12 (see Pope 1973 194)
Deir Alla
ˀprḥ
- young bird
(DNWSI 98)
Attested in I.8 (ˀprḥy ˀnph ‘broods of the ˀnph-bird’), context fragmentary (v. Hackett 1984 48)
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
ˀprḥ
- young bird
(DJPA 71)
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
pāraḥtā
- bird
(DJBA 931)
Syriac
pāraḥtā
- bird (eastern dial.); dove, birds
(LSyr. 594, SL 1236)
Mandaic
pura
- bird(s), fowl
(MD 368)
Maalula
farrīḥa
- chick
(GNDM 26)
Turoyo
farxo
- a young one of any animal
(RW 144)
Arabic
farḫ-
- chick
(BK 2 564, Lane 2362)
Geez
farḫ
- chick, young bird
(CDG 166)
Soqotri
forḥ
- bastard
(
LS
341;
CSOL I
537)