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Official Aramaic
dbr - word, matter
(DNWSI 239; HALOT 1848)
only in the fixed expression ˁl dbr ‘concerning, with regard to’, “from Canaanite formal language, as used in bureocracy” (HALOT 1848)
Reconstruction
PC
*dbr
- to speak
(BDB 180, HALOT 210, DRS 214‒215, Schmidt 1978: 94‒95, Kogan 2015: 288)
Arb
dabbara
- ‘to consider, forecast the results of the affair’ is hardly directly connected