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*zarzī/ūr- - starling
(SED II No. 254)
Scarcely attested, Common Semitic status not fully reliable.
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Akkadian
zanzīru
- starling
(CAD Z 49, AHw. 1511)
Hap Leg in ZA 6 244 47 (equated to iṣṣūr kirî). According to both dictionaries, borrowed from Aramaic.
Hebrew
zarzīr
- rooster
(HALOT 281)
HapLeg in Pr 30.31 in a highly uncertain context (zarzīr motnayim ‘z. with [girded] loins’). The meaning ‘starling’ seems to be reliably attested in postBiblical Hebrew, however (Jastrow. 413).
Syriac
zarzīrā
- starling
(LSyr. 206, PS 1156)
Also zarzūrā
Arabic
zurzur-
- starling
(BK 1 985, Lane 1223, LA IV 323)
Also zurzūr-