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Arabic
ˁaqrab- - scorpion
(Lane 2111)
Cf. ˁaqrab-at-, ˁaqrabāˀ- - scorpion (female) (BK 2 317, Lane 2111); ˁuqrubān-, ˁuqrubbān- - male scorpion (BK 2 317, Lane 2111); ˁaḳrabu l-māˀ- ‘écrevisse’ (BK 2 317).
Reconstruction
PWS
*ˁaḳrab-
- scorpion
(SED II No. 31, Kogan 2011: 213)