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Syriac
neḳbtā - feminine
(LSyr. 444, SL 944)
Reconstruction
PNWS
*naḳib-at-
- woman, female
(Kogan 2015:238)
evidently derived from PS
*nḳb
‘to tear, to pierce, to bore,’ underlying semantic shift refers either to defloration or to the shape of the female genital organs