Proto-Semitic root
*ʾarway-
‘wild beast; lion’
di Mino’s gloss: lion, wild beast
Record 2120 ↗ · SED semet 2325 · Basis: SED
In Linear A1 entry
Reflexes15 languages
Northwest Semitic10
- CanaaniteEg.-Syll. ʔa=-r [*ʔarê] [Hoch 28]gloss withheld
- Mandaic Aramaicaria (pl. ariauata) [DM 37].gloss withheld
- Ugariticʔarw [DULAT 107]gloss withheld
- Biblical Aramaicʔaryē (pl. ʔaryāwātā) ‘lion’ (BDB 1082)
- Phoenicianʔrw [T 29], [Krah. 71]gloss withheld
- Hebrewʔaryē (HALOT 87), ʔărī (ibid.)gloss withheld
- Judaic Aramaicʔărī (det. ʔaryā, ʔaryāwā) [Ja. 118], [Levy WT I 62], [Levy WTM I 164], ʔry, det. ʔryyh [DJPA 74a apud CAL], ʔryw, det. ʔrywth [ibid. 74]. // Sam. ʔryh [Tal 61].gloss withheldCAL 74
- Syrian Aramaicʔaryā ‘lion’, ʔaryūtā ‘lioness’ [Brock. 48], [PS 378-9].
- AramaicAnc. ʔryh [HJ 107]gloss withheld
- Amoriteʾarî (Buck 2019, 324)gloss withheld
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian5
- Geezʔarwe [LGz. 40].gloss withheld
- GurageGyt. Msq. Gog. Sod. Wol. awre, Muh. or [LGur. 114].gloss withheld
- Amharicawre [K 1268], arwe [ibid. 1154].gloss withheldK 1154
- Harariūri [LHar. 31].gloss withheld
- Tigrinyaarä ‘wild beast, fierce animal, and principally denotes the leopard’ [Bass. 493], ʔarawit ‘wild beast, fierce animal, wild animal’ [ibid. 497].Bass. 497
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.