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Soqotri Lexicon
ڛحَاف
ŝḥaf (pl. ŝḥᵃfan)
text examples
néʸhaḥ ˁag tóˀo éḳdem díˀʸheʰ éľľehe déḷaḳ bes ŝḥaf ‘And the man was happy when he saw that his cow had plenty of milk’ (CSOL II 7:20)
semantic notes
The plural form is used with the meaning ‘portions of milk from several milkings’:
égdaḥ díˀʸheʰ ŝéṭreher heʸh ŝḥᵃfan ‘His tribe brought him their milk (each of them, for the period of three days)’ (CSOL II 13:14)
root
etymology
From Proto-MSA *ŝVḫāp- ‘milk’.