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kry, kryˀ (kŭrē, ka/i/uryā) n.m. pile; a grain measure
pile, heap
Gal, PTA, CPA, Sam, Syr, JBA, LJLA
KohR[1]13:3(27)↗ חד כרי דדינרין‏ : a pile of dinars ; PTMas 49.a:49[2]↗ מן ד{י}<ו> ישפר אפוי ד{ב}<כ>ריה‏ : from the time that he sweeps the top of the pile ; TN Ex8:10↗ וכנשו יתהון כרוון כרוון‏ ; SamTgJ Ex8:10↗ וצברו יתון כרבן כרבן‏ ; EphNis 26:2.3↗ ܕܟܲܪܝܵܗ ܫܦܐ ܘܕܟܐ | ܡܢܗܘܢ ܕܙܝ̈ܙܢܐ‏ : that her pile is clean and purified of weeds ; P Ex8:10↗ ܘܟ݁ܢܫܘ ܐܢܝ݂̈ܢ ܟܪ̈ܘܢ ܟܪ̈ܘܢ‏ : they gathered into separate piles ; BT BM 42b(27)↗ כריא דכשותא‏ : a pile of dodder ; TgIIChron 31:7↗ בירחא דסיון שריאו כירוון לאתיסדא‏ : piles (of tithings) began to be established in the month of Sivan
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grain storage
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ON 19:15 ܟܲܪܝܐ܂ ܗ܊܂ ܥܲܢܒ݁ܪ‏ : k': عنبر
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a homer
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SamTgJ Num11:32↗ דאזער כנש עסר כרבן‏ ; P Num11:32↗ ܟܢܫܘܗ݀ ܠܣܠܘܝ܂ ܐܝܢܐ ܕܐܙܥܪ ܟܢܫ ܥܣܪ̈ܐ ܟܪ̈ܘܢ‏ : they gathered quail; the one who had the least had gathered twenty homers
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Syr. and CPA also kwry; pl: PTA כרוון , Sam. כרבן and (as if from kˁr#2) כארה , LJLA כירוון , Syr. ܟܪ̈ܲܘܵܬܵܐ܂ ܟܪ̈ܲܝܵܐ‏, CPA ܟܘܪ̈ܝܐ
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From Akkadian karû (from Sum.) "grain pile" perhaps conflated with kurru "grain measure." LS2 separates ܟܘܪܝܐ and ܟܪܝܐ, taking the former from Greek κοριαῖος, but given the CPA spelling with w and that the Greek itself is almost certainly the same culture-word, that is a dubious distinction.
For the native lexicographic tradition as "grain storage" compare modern NENA bekāre < by n. + karyā, ‘lower part of house used for livestock and storage’, as pointed out by H. Mutzafi in "Akkadian substrate words and meanings surfacing in Neo-Aramaic", Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 10 (2018):31.
Page refs. in other dictionaries: LS2: 651[345]DJPA: 269aDJBA: 601aJastrow: 666Drower/Macuch: 201aPayne-Smith ~: 1804J. Payne-Smith: 226Levy Ch-W: 1:384Tal Sam: 410aDCPA[Schulthess]: 185[]DJA: 57b

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