Mehri

ḥōwər - black (ML 195)

Proto-MSA
*ḥā̆wVr - black (Kogan 2015: 541)

According to Bulakh 2004:273-274, the term for “black” in Soqotri, as well as in other MSA, can be related to Arb. ḥawar- ‘intense whiteness of white of the eye and intense blackness of the black thereof’, in its turn connected with Common Aramaic *ḥwr ‘to be white’. (Kogan 2015: 541)