Proto-Semitic root

*bVṣVr-

‘be inaccessible’

di Mino’s gloss: to be inaccessible; to fortify

Record 2875 ↗ · Basis: kaphtor

In Linear A1 entry

PA-SA-RI-JABaṣariyathe Baṣirean, gentilic of Baṣīru, a town of Ugarit (Ug. bṣry): a wool section headingSpeculativeSemitic1

Notes

HALOT 148 compares Ug. bṣr ‘to rise’.

Reflexes2 languages

Northwest Semitic1

Hebrewb-ṣ-r ‘fortify, make inaccessible, enclose’ (BDB 130)

Arabic1

Arabicbaṣura (HALOT 148)gloss withheld

† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.

Linear A Lexicon