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Syriac
šūrnā - cat; weasel, animal that eats chickens
(LSyr. 809, SL 1536)
šūnārā ‘cat’ (LSyr. 791), šnārətā ‘cat’ (PS 4246), šānūrā ‘cat, she-cat’ (PS 4243), sannūrā, sannūrətā ‘cat’ (PS 2680)
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.