*ʕaṣr-: 'feast, time, season (of pressing fruit?), night'

Root

FieldValue
Reconstruction*ʕaṣr-
Meaning'feast, time, season (of pressing fruit?), night'
BasisSED
SEDSEDonline semet 1096

Reflexes

LanguageFormSourcesNote
Arabicʕṣr II 'to come to the hour of the afternoon; to begin to menstruate, be formed (said of a woman); to begin to be nubile, or be nearly twenty years old; to have a child; to begin to have ears (of grain)', ʕa/i/uṣr- 'time; season, proper moment, necessary time; age, century, epoch', ʔal-ʔaṣr- 'day and night, or evening and morning' BK 2 210-11BK 2 210
Mehriʕac̣argloss withheld
Harsusiʔāṣergloss withheld
Jibbaliʕac̣ǝrgloss withheld
Hebrewʕăṣrā 'holiday, celebration, festive assembly'; pB ʕăṣärät esp. 'festive gathering for a conclusion of a festive season' Ja 1103 (contamination with homon. ʕṣr '(to press), close up, detain')Ja 1103
Judaic Aramaicʕăṣarǝtt- 'Feast of Weeks' Ja 1104Ja 1104
Syrian Aramaicʕāṣart- Br 540: < Hbr (unlikely: diff. meanings)gloss withheld
Geezʿaṣara (LGz. 75)LGz. 75gloss withheld
Aramaicʿᵃṣartā (HALOT 871)HALOT 871gloss withheld

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