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Soqotri Lexicon
ڛَعْفَر
ŝáˁfɛr (du. ŝaˁfέri, pl. ŝáˁfor or ŝaˁférhon)
basic morphological information
text examples
wa-ḷaṭ yeˀóugɛ be-róutɛľ ˁaf ľiṭḳéḳ wa-ḷaṭ yeˁúmor méʸhen ŝáˁfor wa-ḷaṭ yeḥúṣaḳ ‘Then one would beat them with a stick until they become soft, then one would make threads of them, which would be woven together (into a rope)’ (Naumkin et al. 2022:275)
root
etymology
Etymologically uncertain, cf. Naumkin et al. 2022:275–276.