# \*ʒVry/ʾ/ʕ- ~ \*ǯVry/ʾ/ʕ 1, \*ʒry/wʾ/ʕ ~ \*ǯry/w/ʾ/ʕ 2 'seed, sowing, sown field' 1, 'to sow, cultivate' 2

A Proto-Semitic root the Linear A Lexicon's readings rest on.

- Author's gloss: to sow; seed, offspring
- SED semet 1951
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/z/1815_seed_sowing_sown_field_1_to_sow_cultivate_2.md

## In Linear A

- [\*305-RU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*305-RU/index.md>) (ḏarʿ(u)): seed-grain
- [ZE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/ZE/index.md>) (zēru): seed-grain (agricultural category marker for planting stock allocations)

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: zēru (zarʔu) OAkk. on (CAD Z 89; AHw 1521) (gloss withheld)
- Eblaitic: ša-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)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Mandaic Aramaic: ZRA (DM 170), zira (Ibid. 167) (gloss withheld) [DM 167]
- Ugaritic: d/ḏrʕ, drʕ (DULAT 277–278) (gloss withheld)
- Phoenician: Ph. zrʕ (HALOT 282) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: zrʕ, zäraʕ (HALOT 282) (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: drʕ 'to sow', dǝraʕ, darʕā 'seed, produce, offspring' (Ja. 324), zǝraʕ, zarʕā 'seed', zrʕ 'to strew, sow' (Ibid. 414) [Ja. 414]
- Syrian Aramaic: zrʕ 'sowed', zarʕā 'semen' (Brock. 207)
- Aramaic: Bib. zǝraʕ (BDB 1091), Emp. Eg. zrʕ, Yaud. zrʕ (HALOT 282) (gloss withheld)
- Punic: mzrʿ (Neo-Punic; Krahmalkov 274); zrʿ (gloss withheld) [Anderson–Moser 2024 root ḏrʿ]
- Amorite: ḏrʿ 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)
- Emar: zi-ir-a-ti /ðirʿatu/ (Pentiuc 2001, 195) (gloss withheld)
- Biblical Aramaic: *zəraʕ 1 (HALOT 282) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: ḏry/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 seed; to sow a field with some grain', zurʕ- 'seed; standing cereals, cultivated field' (Ibid. 985) [BK 772; BK 985]
- Modern Arabic: Yem. ḏirēʾ, ḏireh (Biella 99)
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic zrʿ (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 143) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab. m-ḏrʔ-t (SD 40; Sabaweb lemma 4052) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Mehri: zūra, ha-zrē, S. Mhr. zǝrɛ̄t (JM 469), ḏǝráyyǝt (Ibid. 81) (gloss withheld) [JM 81]
- Soqotri: deri (LS 135) (gloss withheld)
- Tigre: zärʔa (LGz. 642) (gloss withheld)
- Geez: zarʔa, zarʕa, zarʔ (LGz. 642) (gloss withheld)
- Gurage: *zärra (LGz. 642); *zär (LGur. 713) (gloss withheld)
- Jibbali: zéraʕ, ezóraʕ, zéraʕ (JJ 320), ḏǝrrít (Ibid. 47) (gloss withheld) [JJ 47]
- Amharic: zärra (LGz. 642) (gloss withheld)
- Harari: zäraʔa (LGz. 642) (gloss withheld)
- Gafat: zärrä (LGz. 642) (gloss withheld)
- Argobba: zärra (LGz. 642) (gloss withheld)
- Tigrinya: zärʔe (LGz. 642) (gloss withheld)
- East Ethiopic: Sel. zära, Wol. zärä, Zwy. zärā (EDG 713 apud SEDonline 53) (gloss withheld)

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