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Hebrew
bēkär, bikrā - camel
(HALOT 131)
Reconstruction
Areal reconstruction
*bVkr-
- camel
(SED II No. 56, Kogan 2011: 207)
one of the four main designations of camel in individual languages, the similarity of these designations must be due to diffusion from an Arabian source