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Soqotri Lexicon
عٞارُف
ˁérof (yeˁóref/ľaˁrέf)
basic morphological information
v. (Ia)
to scoop
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غرف
LS 328; CSOL I 496; ad-Daˁrhi et al. 2019:552-553; Naumkin et al. 2016b:60
черпать
غرف
text examples
a. gedóḥo ḷe-méṭreʰ wa-ˁerɛ́foʰ díˀseʰ di-ḳáŝˁer ‘She came, at dawn, and started to pour water (from the water-spring) into her skin’ (CSOL I 7:4)
b. ksek fóti di-téber meʸh faḳḥ wa-záˁak toʸh wa-ˁérofk hes men ḳáne di-ḳat ḥoz di-ʸhóbiˁ marrát ‘I found a broken clay pot. I took it and drew with it (some water) for her (for the cow), seven times’ (ad-Daˁrhi et al. 2019:552–553)
c. ˁámok inέm dέnˁaʰ di-be-sferíyyeʰ ˁímɛr šúrbaʰ ... wa-ˁírɛf énhi ‘I asked: “What is there in the pan?” They said: “It is a soup”... And they poured it for me’ (ad-Daˁrhi et al. 2019:553)
root
derivates
- máˁref glass
etymology
From PWS *γrp ‘to scoop, to fetch water’.