The cognates with the close meaning include Arb. ṣayd- ‘what is captured, caught of wild animals, of fowl or fish’ (Lane 1753). “An Arabic loanword in MSA is probable in view of the fact that ṣēd is the normal designation of “fish” throughout the Arabic dialects of South Arabia (GD 1980, 2160)” (Kogan 2015:540)