Semitic Etymological Database
Aramaic root; cf. NeoSyr. ṣbˀ 'to decorate' (with feathers, Maclean 262a); NeoArm. ṣyb (Bergsträsser Gloss. 83).
Reconstruction
It similarly mirrors the semantic evolution of the PWS root *ptw ‘to desire’ (> Arb. fataⁿ ‘youth’).