The Arabic designation of the Purim feast, ˀal-fuhr-, goes back to Hebrew pūr “lot” (HALOT 920) and is remarkable in view of the secondary hinsertion. It may have been influended by Aramaic forms like Syr. puḥrā “convivium” (LSyr. 563), Mnd. puhra “feast, banquet” (MD 367), cf. especially the variant fuḫr- reported in Lane 2453 (EDA I 52).