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Arabic
ḫurˀ-, ḫarˀ - human excrement; dung of the dog, field-rat, ant, fly
(BK 1 552, Lane 715)
Reconstruction
PWS
*ḫVrˀ-
- excrement, dregs
(SED I No. 136; Kogan 2011: 227)
Cf. Akk.
(ḫ)arāru
‘to rot, to discharge a putrid liquid, to defecate’.