Arabic

qāriṣ- - a kind of biting insect (BK 1 658, Fr. I l l 425, Lane 2514, TA 18 88)

PCS
*ḳarṣ- - kind of harmful insect; mosquito (SED II No. 138)
Likely related to PS verbal root *ḳrṣ ‘to sting, to nibble’