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*gadp- - wing
(SED I No. 74)
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Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
gdp
- wing, border
(DJPA 121)
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
gadpā
- wing
(Jastrow 214, DJBA 262a)
Mandaic
gadpa
- wing, limb
(MD 74)
Arabic
miǯdāf-
- aile (d'un oiseau) (wing (of a bird)
(BK 1 265)
The word is formed after the pattern of «nomen instrumenti» from the verbal root ǯdf ‘voler d’une vole rapide, etc’