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Arabic
ˁuḍāḍ- - le haut du nez, à l’endroit où les sourcils se séparent (the top of the nose, where the eyebrows part)
(BK 2 277)
Var. ˁaḍḍāḍ-. According to Belot Arb.-Fr. 501, the same two words mean ‘os, cartilage’.
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PWS
*ˁVṣ̂āṣ̂-/*ˁVṣ̂īṣ̂-
- (kind of) bone
(SED I No. 24)
Though Arb. and MSA only, rather a common Sem. root: the MSA words being main terms for ‘bone’ can hardly be loan-words from Arb., with its very specified meaning.