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Syriac
ḳerdā - castor bean
(LSyr. 693, SL 1402)
Probably related with the underlying meaning ‘the parasite insect causing fall of hair’.
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PS
*ḳrd
- to have a disease causing fall of hair
(SED I No. 36v)
As an anatomic term only in Akk. and Arb.