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Syriac
šurmā - anus, rectum
(LSyr. 809, SL 1536)
Scarcely attested.
Reconstruction
PS
*sur(u)m-
- intestine
(SED I No. 237)
Inter-Semitic loans (Akk. > Syr. > Arb.) cannot be entirely ruled out.