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Harsusi
ḳerūṣ - biting insects, bugs
(HL 77)
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PCS
*ḳarṣ-
- kind of harmful insect; mosquito
(SED II No. 138)
Likely related to PS verbal root *ḳrṣ ‘to sting, to nibble’