Gafat

samä - to kiss (Leslau 1956:230)

PES
*sˁm - to kiss (CDG 481; Kogan 2015: 463)
The origin of Proto-EthS *sˁm ‘to kiss’ is unknown. Yemenite Arabic saˁam (Behnstedt 559), correctly identified with the Ethiopian root by W. Müller (apud Leslau), is to be attributed to the contact with an early forerunner of EthS on the Arabian soil.