PWS

*ˁaḳrab- - scorpion (SED II No. 31, Kogan 2011: 213)

Akkadian

aḳrabu - scorpion (CAD A₂ 207, AHw. 62)

The term is rightly thought to be a WS loan in both dictionaries. See further von Soden 1957–8: 393.

Ugaritic

ˁḳrb - scorpion (DUL 177)

Hebrew

ˁaḳrāb - scorpion (HALOT 875)

Old Aramaic

ˁḳrb - scorpion (DNWSI 883)

Official Aramaic

ˁḳrbˀ - scorpion (DNWSI 883)

Jewish Palestinian Aramaic

ˁḳrb - scorpion (DJPA 417)

det. ˁaḳrabbā

Samaritan

ˁḳrb - scorpion (DSA 660)

Jewish Babylonian Aramaic

ˁaḳrabbā - scorpion (DJBA 878)

Syriac

ˁeḳḳarbā - scorpion (LSyr. 544, SL 1133)

Mandaic

arḳba - scorpion (MD 39)

Related with metathesis.

Turoyo

ˁēḳarwo - skorpion (scorpion) (RW 16)

Arabic

ˁaqrab- - scorpion (Lane 2111)

Cf. ˁaqrab-at-, ˁaqrabāˀ- - scorpion (female) (BK 2 317, Lane 2111); ˁuqrubān-, ˁuqrubbān- - male scorpion (BK 2 317, Lane 2111); ˁaḳrabu l-māˀ- ‘écrevisse’ (BK 2 317).

Geez

ˁ/ˀaḳrab, ˁ/ˀaḳrāb - scorpion (CDG 68, LLA 977, LG 290)

Possibly an Arabism.

Tigre

ˁarḳäb, ˀarḳäb - scorpion (WTS 459)

Metathesis and ˀ- vs. ˁ- in the second form. Cf. also ˁarḳäb bäḥar ‘crab’ (ibid.).

Tigrinya

ˁǝnḳǝrbit - scorpion (TED 1884)

Also ˀǝnḳǝrbit with ˀ- (ibid. 1477). Cf. also ˁǝnḳǝrbit baḥri ‘crab’ (TED 1884).

Amharic

aḳrab - Scorpio (AED 1185)

The term is borrowed from Gez. (in its turn, possibly an Arabism).

Jibbali

ˁaḳréb - Skorpion (Bittner 16)

Not in JL.