# \*ʕaṣr-: 'feast, time, season (of pressing fruit?), night' > Proto-Semitic *ʕaṣr-, 'feast, time, season (of pressing fruit?), night': reflexes in 9 language(s). A page of the Linear A Lexicon's research wiki, in [Wiki]() › [Kaphtor Semitic Roots]() › [ʿ](). Updated 2026-10-22. ## Root | Field | Value | |---|---| | Reconstruction | \*ʕaṣr- | | Meaning | 'feast, time, season (of pressing fruit?), night' | | Basis | SED | | SED | SEDonline semet 1096 | ## Reflexes | Language | Form | Sources | Note | |---|---|---|---| | Arabic | ʕṣr 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 2 210-11 | BK 2 210 | | | Mehri | ʕac̣ar | | gloss withheld | | Harsusi | ʔāṣer | | gloss withheld | | Jibbali | ʕac̣ǝr | | gloss withheld | | Hebrew | ʕăṣrā '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 Aramaic | ʕăṣarǝtt- 'Feast of Weeks' Ja 1104 | Ja 1104 | | | Syrian Aramaic | ʕāṣart- Br 540: < Hbr (unlikely: diff. meanings) | | gloss withheld | | Geez | ʿaṣara (LGz. 75) | LGz. 75 | gloss withheld | | Aramaic | ʿᵃṣartā (HALOT 871) | HALOT 871 | gloss withheld | A form keeps its source's gloss only when the source is public domain or openly licensed. ## Linked from - [ʿ]() --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/wiki/semitic-roots/ayin/1065_feast_time_season_of_pressing_fruit_q_night/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.