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PWS
*dabr- - open country
(Fronzaroli 1965b: 266; Kogan 2011: 117)
The earliest attestation of *madbar- comes from OB Mari (Streck 2000:103)
Words
Ugaritic
mdbr
- desert
(DUL 525)
Hebrew
midbār
- pasture, steppe, desert
(HALOT 546)
Syriac
dabrā
- field, land, country
(LSyr. 140, SL 272)
Arabic
dabrat-
- a patch of sown ground
(Lane 845)
Geez
dabr
- mountain
(CDG 121)
Soqotri
dábar
- pasture
(
CSOL I
525;
Naumkin et al. 2016b
:62)