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*zapp/bb- - hair (on the head), bristle
(SED I No. 297)
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Akkadian
zappu
- bristle, (animal) hair
(CAD Z 49; AHw. 1511)
Var. zabbu, azappu
Hebrew
zayip
- bristles; eye-brows
(Jastrow 395 )
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
zaypā, zēpā
- eye-brow
(Jastrow 395)
Syriac
zaptā, zeptā
- stinking
(LSyr. 203, SL 392)
Mandaic
zapa
- eyelash; eyelid (?)
(MD 160)
Hertevin
zapta
- (one single) hair
(J Hert. 202 )
Arabic
zabb-, zabab
- abundance of hair
(BK 1 968, Lane 1208)