SEDonline
Semitic Etymological Database
Words
Reconstructions
About
Abbreviations
References
Proto-MSA
*wṭb - to beat, to tan
(JL 294)
Words
Arabic
nṭb
- to box someone’s ears
(LA 1 900)
A variant root?
Arabic
waṭb-
- skin in which milk is put; large breast
(BK 2 1561; Lane 2949; LA 1 941)
Mehri
wəṭáwb
- to tan leather
(ML 433)
Jibbali
eṭɔ́b
- to tan leather
(JL 294)
Soqotri
ö́ṭab
- to beat (also about leather in the tanning process)
(
LS
57;
CSOL II
397)