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أٞقْرٞه

éḳreʰ (du. eḳríti, pl. iḳárhen)

basic morphological information

n. (f.)

cluster of male inflorescence of a date-palm
мужское соцветие
شمروخ

LS 72; CSOL I 470; CSOL II 386

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

ˀḳr 1

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).