šu/in(n)ār-, šurān- - cat (SED II No. 206)

Since a chain of borrowings (Akk. > Arm. > Arb. > MSA) is not unlikely, the Common Semitic status of the present term is doubtful.

Akkadian

šurānu - cat (CAD Š₃ 339, AHw. 1282)

Old Aramaic

šrn - wild cat (DNWSI 1193)

Jewish Babylonian Aramaic

šunnārā - cat (Jastrow 1537)

Syriac

šūrnā - cat; weasel, animal that eats chickens (LSyr. 809, SL 1536)

šūnārā ‘cat’ (LSyr. 791), šnārətā ‘cat’ (PS 4246), šānūrā ‘cat, she-cat’ (PS 4243), sannūrā, sannūrətā ‘cat’ (PS 2680)

Mandaic

šunara - cat (MD 455)

fem. šinarta ‘she-cat’ (MD 462)

Arabic

sunnār-, sinnawr- - cat (BK 1 1151, Lane 1445, LA IV 381)

šunārā ‘cat’ (BK 1 1276, Lane 1605)

Mehri

sənnáwrət - cat (ML 351)

Jibbali

sínórt - cat (JL 231)

Harsusi

sennōreh - cat (HL 112)

*šu/in(n)ār-, *šurān- - cat (SED II No. 206)