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Arabic
samāmat- - kind of little bird similar to a swallow
(BK 1 1134, Lane 1419, LA XII 305)
Cf. also Arb. sumānat-, sumānā ‘species of quaiľ (BK 1 1143, Fr. II 358, Lane 1432, LA XIII 220), to be analyzed as *sum- with a suffixed -ān-?.
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PS
*sVm(V)m(-at)-
- kind of bird
(SED II No. 196)