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Tigre
däbər - black dots or spots
(WTS 527)
The meaning is very plausibly related to ‘plague’ and not attested in Arb., which makes a borrowing from Arb. unlikely.
Reconstruction
PS
*da/ib(a)r-
- pestilence, plague
(SED I No. 45)