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Hebrew
zarzīr - rooster
(HALOT 281)
HapLeg in Pr 30.31 in a highly uncertain context (zarzīr motnayim ‘z. with [girded] loins’). The meaning ‘starling’ seems to be reliably attested in postBiblical Hebrew, however (Jastrow. 413).
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PS
*zarzī/ūr-
- starling
(SED II No. 254)
Scarcely attested, Common Semitic status not fully reliable.