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Arabic
qamaṣ- - small insects on the surface of stagnant water; small locusts
(BK 2 813)
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PWS
*ḳVṣVm-, *ḳVmVṣ-/*ḳamṣ-
- a kind of harmful insect
(SED II Nos. 131, 139; Kogan 2011: 213)