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Soqotri Lexicon
عٞارُف
ˁérof (yeˁóref/ľaˁrɛ́f)
basic morphological information
v. (Ia)
to spoon
черпать
غرف
LS 328; CSOL I 496; ad-Daˁrhi et al. 2019:552-553; Naumkin et al. 2016b:60
черпать
غرف
text examples
šɔm men énhor di-ˀáḷḷaʰ neŝɛ́ro ṭey ˁážeʰ gedóḥo ḷe-méṭreʰ wa-ˁerɛ́foʰ díˀseʰ di-ḳáŝˁer ‘One day among the days of God, it was a woman who came first, at dawn, and started to pour water into her skin.’ (CSOL I 7:4)
root
derivates
- máˁref glass
etymology
The Soqotri verb goes back to the well-known root *γrf ‘to scoop, to fetch water’, attested in Arabic, elsewhere in Modern South Arabian and in Geez. (Naumkin et al. 2016b:60)