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Soqotri Lexicon
مَار
mɛr (pl. mέri, pl. mírhor)
belly, stomach
живот
بطنٌ
LS 251, CSOL I 612, CSOL II 539
живот
بطنٌ
text examples
wa-kaḷ ľeḥáḳ ˁésen émme yetéḳi tembɛ́koʰ ˁaf ľaḥtéšɛm weľľá yemáẓ̂aˁ ˁáṣab di-sébroʰ wa-yemáṣ̌ar meʸh rího wa-yáˁṭeṭ weľľá yíroy rího béne di-déḷaḳ ˁaf ḷeṭḥófen táˁhɛḷ di-ḳáneʰ di-mɛr ‘But if one cannot catch them in time, then he must either smoke till he’s queasy or chew on a branch of s.-tree, sucking its sap and gulping it down, or drink a lot of water to wash the worms down into the stomach.’ (CSOL I 30:22)
other notes
Cf. also CSOL I 612. There is also an expression di-mɛr which is used to denote the intestines (CSOL I 171).
root
etymology
cf. Hrs. merrét ‘bile, gall’ (HL 89), Jib. mɛrrɔ́t ‘gall-bladder’ (JL 173), Mhr. mərrāt ‘gall, gall-bladder’ (ML 268)