Possible attestations of this root in Arabic are problematic. Many scholars accepted its
connection with Arb.
qnˀ ‘to be intensely red’, very tentatively mentioned in Brockelmann 1932:115, but this is semantically rather far-fetched. Perhaps more promising as a cognate
would be Arb.
qnˀ ‘to incite, to induce to kill someone’ = “to kill out of envy”?