# \*baḳar- 'large cattle'

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

- Author's gloss: cattle, herd; cow
- SED semet 1971
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/b/1832_large_cattle.md

## In Linear A

- [PA₃-KA-RA-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PA~E2~82~83-KA-RA-TI/index.md>) (baqarāti): cattle, heifers (fem.pl.)

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Eblaitic: ba-ḳá-lum = ÁB.UDU [MEE 4 1101], /baḳarum/ [Kreb. 39].; ba-ga-lum /baqar, buqar/ (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 117) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Mandaic Aramaic: baḳra [DM 49]. (gloss withheld)
- Phoenician: bḳr [T 54], [Krah. 124] (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: bāḳār (HALOT 151), pB. [Ja. 187]. (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: baḳrā [Ja. 187], [Levy WTM I 256]; bḳr [DJPA 110a apud CAL], bḳwrh, det. bḳwrth [ibid.]. // Sam. bḳr, bwḳrh [Tal 112]. (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: baḳrā 'herd (of cattle, sheep, swine, camels, apes, demons, heretics)' [Brock. 88], [PS 575].
- Aramaic: bqr (Aramaic Root Atlas; CAL s.v. bqr) (gloss withheld) [Anderson–Moser 2024 root bqr]
- Punic: bqr 'cattle' [Anderson–Moser 2024 root bqr]
- Ugaritic: bqr 'cattle' [Anderson–Moser 2024 root bqr]
- Modern Aramaic: Krd. buḳra; NSyr. biḳrâ, bŭḳrâ; NAssyr. bıḳra, buḳra; Tlk. buḳra; Ass. bɨḳra; Tur. baḳro (SED II 83)
- Emar: ba-qa-ra, bu-qà-ri /baqaru/, /buqaru/ (Pentiuc 2001, 36–37) (gloss withheld)
- Amorite: buqāru (Streck 2000, 87); baqar, buqar (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 117) (gloss withheld)
- Canaanite: EG SYLL pa₂=ra=ku /*baqaru/ (Hoch 121–122) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: baḳar- 'oxen and cows, bovine breed', baḳarat- 'a head of bovine livestock; cow', baḳīr- 'herd of oxen', bāḳūr(-at)- 'herd of oxen' [BK 1 149], [Fr. I 141-2], [Lane 234], [LA IV 73ff.].
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic bqr (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 61) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab. bḳr [SD 30; Sabaweb lemma 3043] // Min. bḳr [LM 23; Sabaweb lemma 3043] // Hdr. bḳr [Sima 50] (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Mehri: bǝḳǝrēt [JM 47]. (gloss withheld)

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