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Soqotri
ḥǟber - beauty spot, mole; big congenital black spot
(SSL 4 88)
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*ḥVbVr-
- spot on the skin, bruise, mark of violence
(SED I No. 111; Kogan 2011: 230)
Likely connected with Sem. *ḥbr ‘to paint, dye, mark’, *ḥVbr- ‘color, paint, mark’