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Arabic
faḥḥār- - worm
(Baranov 583)
Not attested in the available dictionaries of Classical Arabic
Reconstruction
PWS
*pVḥVr-
- kind of worm
(SED II No. 172)
Possibly related to PS *pḥr ‘to dig, to make a hole’ which is present in both Arb. and Eth.