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Arabic
qāriṣ- - a kind of biting insect
(BK 1 658, Fr. I l l 425, Lane 2514, TA 18 88)
Reconstruction
PCS
*ḳarṣ-
- kind of harmful insect; mosquito
(SED II No. 138)
Likely related to PS verbal root *ḳrṣ ‘to sting, to nibble’