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Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
šunnārā - cat
(Jastrow 1537)
Reconstruction
PS
*šu/in(n)ār-, *šurān-
- cat
(SED II No. 206)
Since a chain of borrowings (Akk. > Arm. > Arb. > MSA) is not unlikely, the Common Semitic status of the present term is doubtful.