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*prpr - to move convulsively, to be in panic, agitation, agony
(EDA I 201)
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Hebrew
prpr
- to shake, to tug about
(HALOT 975)
Hebrew
prr
- (po.) to stir, to rouse; (hitpo.) to totter backwards and forwards
(HALOT 975)
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
prpr
- to be in the agony of death
(DJPA 450)
Syriac
prpr
- to wriggle out; to writhe in death (or death-like) agony
(LSyr. 604, SL 1249)
Arabic
frfr
- to put in a state of commotion, agitation
(Lane 2356)
Geez
ˀanfarfara
- to thrash about, to flail about, to move convulsively
(EDG 165)
Tigrinya
tänfärfärä
- to shiver with cold; to get excited
(TED 2675)
Amharic
tänfäräffärä
- to writhe, to flail about, to flop around, to flap its wing, to flop, to have strong pulsations
(AED 2291)
Harari
firfir bāya
- to be in convulsions (an animal having been shot or slaughtered)
(EDH 64)
Mehri
fәrfīr
- hasty person
(ML 98)
Jibbali
әnfɛrfér
- to have a fit, to have epilepsy; to panic
(JL 60)