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Soqotri Lexicon
زٞرِيبٞه
zeríbeʰ (du. zeribíti, pl. zaráyeb )
basic morphological information
text examples
díˀʸho bíyyoʰ taˁámer kúľľeʰ sέneʰ zeríbeʰ be-ḳáˁar ho wa-díˀʸho ḳáḳaʰ aˁamέroʰ hes aḷ-ˁaš taˁmír hin zeríbeʰ be-ḳáˁar ˁemέroʰ aˁámer ṭahέrki ho wa-díˀʸho ḳáḳaʰ wa-ḥorímki zeríbeʰ fáḥre ‘Every year my mother makes a fence of palm-ribs at our place. We, my sister and I, tell her: “Don’t make this fence anymore,” but she says: “I will.” Then we destroyed it completely, my sister and I.’ (CSOL II 5:20)
root
etymology
An Arabic borrowing.