أٞدْبٞهٞر
édbeher (du. edbíri, pl. édbehor)
basic morphological information

n. (m.)

bee
пчела
نَحْلَة
LS 122; CSOL I 525; CSOL II 443
text examples

ṭáhɛrk ˁámok édbehor wa-ˁéyyek ḷehέ éˀed di-néḳheľ  ‘Once I went to work with bees and I wanted to put my hand into the beehive’ (CSOL I 2:51)

semantic notes

Also ‘beetle’:

ŝínik édbeher di-ˀéḳdaḥ (or: ḳádaḥ) be-meṣédeḳ ḥaʰ wa-ḥaʰ ṭeʸh šɔm édofk ḷe-ˁéšḳaʰ wa-ḷášaˁk toʸh ˁaf yeḳrímim ‘I saw a beetle, called édbeher, that had eaten holes here and there through the beams of the house. One day I took an (old) date cluster and smacked it so that it curled up (and died)’ (Bulakh et al. 2021:249)

root
etymology

From PWS *dVbr- ‘bee’

continental MSA