Mandaic

aria - lion (MD 37)

(pl. ariauata)
M. Mnd. āryā ‘Löwe’ (Macuch NT 368).

PNWS
*ˀarway-/*ˀaryay- - lion (SED II Nos. 17, 18; Kogan 2015: 236)
semantic narrowing from a more general meaning “wild beast” in PWS