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*ṣulṣVl- - (wild) dove
Central Semitic only unless Akk. ṣililītu ‘a bird’ (CAD Ṣ 188, AHw. 1100) is compared (attested in lexical lists, according to Salonen 1973 262, possibly to be identified with Passer domesticus)
Words
Hebrew
ṣōṣāl
- dove
(Jastrow 1270)
pB.
Samaritan
ṣlṣl
- a bird
(DSA 734)
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
ṣuṣṣlā
- dove
(DJBA 956)
det. ṣuṣṣiltā
Syriac
ṣuṣlā
- ring-dove
(LSyr. 636, SL 1280)
Mandaic
ṣiṣlia
- small doves
(MD 394)
Arabic
ṣulṣul-
- wood-pigeon, wild dove
(BK 1 1361, Lane 1711, LA XI 384)