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Amharic
aḳrab - Scorpio
(AED 1185)
The term is borrowed from Gez. (in its turn, possibly an Arabism).
Reconstruction
PWS
*ˁaḳrab-
- scorpion
(SED II No. 31, Kogan 2011: 213)