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kwr, kwrˀ n.m. fish
fish
OfAIdeog., OfAEast, JBA, Man, LJLA
BT BB 161b(4)↗ דהא רב צאיר כוורא‏ : PN, in fact, used to draw a fish (as his signature) ; GY 387:20↗ ukauaria mn iama pahrin : the fish will be flying out of the sea ; TgIIChron 33:14↗ למיעל בתרע מזבני כווריא‏ : up to the entrance of the fishmongers' gate
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בי כורי : fish pond (?)
JBA
BT Ḥul 62b(13)↗ הני {ב}<כ>ראזי דבי חילפי שרו, ודבי כרבי/כורי/ אסירי‏ : locusts(?) of reedy areas are allowed, but those of the plowed fields/fish ponds/ are forbidden †
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From Akkadian kamāru, itself a Sumerian loan; see AIOA 62. We see no obvious distinction in usage between this loanword and the old common word nūn. Presumably, though, it had become the normal usage in Babylonian Aramaic for certain kinds of fish.
Page refs. in other dictionaries: DJBA: 556aJastrow: 617Drower/Macuch: 196aLevy Ch-W: 1:359DNWSI: 495

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