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Syriac
ˁnāḳā - ostrich
(LSyr. 535, SL 1118)
“Clearly an Arabism (a late gloss explaining Arb. ˁanḳāˀ-)” (SED II 10).
Reconstruction
PWS
*ˀan(V)ḳ-
- a bird of prey
(SED II No. 6)