Proto-Semitic root
*ʒVry/ʾ/ʕ- ~ *ǯVry/ʾ/ʕ 1, *ʒry/wʾ/ʕ ~ *ǯry/w/ʾ/ʕ 2
‘seed, sowing, sown field’ 1, ‘to sow, cultivate’ 2
di Mino’s gloss: to sow; seed, offspring
Record 1815 ↗ · SED semet 1951 · Basis: SED, meaning edited
In Linear A2 entries
Reflexes29 languages
East Semitic2
- Akkadianzēru (zarʔu) OAkk. on (CAD Z 89; AHw 1521)gloss withheld
- Eblaiticša-la-um /ḏaRʕum/ (VE 659, Kogan–Krebernik 2021b: 690 apud SEDonline 53; Krebernik 1983, 26)ša-la-ù, šar-ù (Kogan 2011, 200; VE 684; Krebernik 1983, 26)/ḏarʿu hadārtim/ (= Sum. še-AD₆) (VE 684; Bonechi 2008, 4)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic11
- Mandaic AramaicZRA (DM 170), zira (Ibid. 167)gloss withheldDM 167
- Ugariticd/ḏrʕ, drʕ (DULAT 277–278)gloss withheld
- PhoenicianPh. zrʕ (HALOT 282)gloss withheld
- Hebrewzrʕ, zäraʕ (HALOT 282)gloss withheld
- Judaic Aramaicdrʕ ‘to sow’, dǝraʕ, darʕā ‘seed, produce, offspring’ (Ja. 324), zǝraʕ, zarʕā ‘seed’, zrʕ ‘to strew, sow’ (Ibid. 414)Ja. 414
- Syrian Aramaiczrʕ ‘sowed’, zarʕā ‘semen’ (Brock. 207)
- AramaicBib. zǝraʕ (BDB 1091), Emp. Eg. zrʕ, Yaud. zrʕ (HALOT 282)gloss withheld
- Punicmzrʿ (Neo-Punic; Krahmalkov 274)zrʿgloss withheldAnderson–Moser 2024 root ḏrʿ
- Amoriteḏrʿ 2, 1: jaḏraʿ, jiḏruʿ, ḏaraʿ, ḏariʿum (Gelb AS 21, 18)ḏāriʿu 2 (Buck 2019, 326)ḏarʿat 1: za-ra-te-šu-nu (Alalakh) (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 167)gloss withheld
- Emarzi-ir-a-ti /ðirʿatu/ (Pentiuc 2001, 195)gloss withheld
- Biblical Aramaic*zəraʕ 1 (HALOT 282)gloss withheld
Arabic3
- Arabicḏry/w ‘to spread the seed (while sowing), to sow’ (BK 1, 771), ḏurat- ‘dorra, a kind of millet’ (Ibid. 772), ḏrʔ ‘to sow (the earth)’ (BK 1, 767), zrʕ 'to sow, spread the seedto sow a field with some grain‘, zurʕ- ’seedstanding cereals, cultivated field' (Ibid. 985)BK 772 · BK 985
- Modern ArabicYem. ḏirēʾ, ḏireh (Biella 99)
- Pre-Islamic North ArabianSafaitic zrʿ (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 143)gloss withheld
Epigraphic South Arabian1
- Epigraphic South ArabianSab. m-ḏrʔ-t (SD 40; Sabaweb lemma 4052)gloss withheld
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian12
- Mehrizūra, ha-zrē, S. Mhr. zǝrɛ̄t (JM 469), ḏǝráyyǝt (Ibid. 81)gloss withheldJM 81
- Soqotrideri (LS 135)gloss withheld
- Tigrezärʔa (LGz. 642)gloss withheld
- Geezzarʔa, zarʕa, zarʔ (LGz. 642)gloss withheld
- Gurage*zärra (LGz. 642)*zär (LGur. 713)gloss withheld
- Jibbalizéraʕ, ezóraʕ, zéraʕ (JJ 320), ḏǝrrít (Ibid. 47)gloss withheldJJ 47
- Amhariczärra (LGz. 642)gloss withheld
- Hararizäraʔa (LGz. 642)gloss withheld
- Gafatzärrä (LGz. 642)gloss withheld
- Argobbazärra (LGz. 642)gloss withheld
- Tigrinyazärʔe (LGz. 642)gloss withheld
- East EthiopicSel. zära, Wol. zärä, Zwy. zärā (EDG 713 apud SEDonline 53)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.