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*bizz- - teat, breast
(SED I No. 44; Kogan 2011: 217)
Words
Ugaritic
bz
- breast
(DLU 123)
Official Aramaic
bz
- breast
(DNWSI 149)
Uncertain.
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
bz
- breast
(DJPA 89)
det. byzh
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
bizzā, biztā
- pap, breast
(DJBA 159)
Syriac
bezzā
- breast, teat
(LSyr. 64, SL 132)
Syriac
bezzonā
- small teat
(LSyr. 64, SL 133)
Arabic
bizz-, buzz-
- nipple
(Dozy I 80)
See Arb. dial. bizz ‘sein, mamelle’ “udder” [ibid. 120] marked as Afr. meaning an unspecied Arabic dialect spoken in Africa.
Amharic
bəz
- internal tumor; kind of chancre which appears on the backs of pack animals due to chafing of the loads
(AED 929)
May be related with a meaning shift.