Proto-Semitic root
*ʾkr 1, *ʾa/ikkār- 2
‘to cultivate’ 1, ‘laborer’ 2
di Mino’s gloss: to plough, till; ploughman, farmer
Record 1810 ↗ · SED semet 1946 · Basis: SED, meaning edited
In Linear A3 entries
Reflexes7 languages
East Semitic1
- Akkadianikkaru, inkaru (Nuzi) OAkk on (CAD I/J 49; AHw 368)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic3
- Mandaic AramaicAKR (DM 18), ʕkara (Ibid. 349)gloss withheldDM 349
- Hebrewʔikkār (HALOT 47)gloss withheld
- Syrian Aramaicʔakkārā ‘farmer’, ʔkr ‘ploughed, tilled the field’ (Brock. 20)
Arabic1
- Arabicʔakr- 'the act of digging the earth, a pitthe act of ploughing the earth‘, ʔakkār- ’one who digs the earth, gravediggerploughman‘ (BK 1, 42), ʔkr ’to plough (the soil), to dig it' (Belot 1929, 11)
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian2
- GurageChaha t-akärä, Enn. Gyeto t-ākärä, End. t-ākkärä (LGur 593)gloss withheld
- Amharicakkärä (LGur 593)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.