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Soqotri Lexicon
أٞقْرٞه
éḳreʰ (du. eḳríti, pl. iḳárhen)
basic morphological information
text examples
gézom ˁag ber aḷ-ŝáraḥ éḳreʰ men míˀšer ‘The man swore he had not plucked the inflorescence from that male palm’ (CSOL I 5:43)
root
etymology
Etymologically obscure. Probably the same word as éḳre ‘sheath’, in turn without etymology. Conspicuously similar is Akk. uḳūru ‘heart or shoot of the date palm’ (CAD U 205).