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tr (tar) n.m. a small water bird
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(zool.) a small water bird
Syr
Nat 25:5↗ text not cited ; BBah 2088:10↗ ܦܪܚܬܐ ܂܂܂ ܡܬܩܪܝܐ ܕܝܢ ܒܐܬܪ ܐܬܪ ܩܨܘܡܬܐ‏ : a bird ... called in some places "harbinger"
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turtledove
Sam
SamTgJ Lev14:30↗ ויעבד ית אחדה מן תריה‏ : [Sam. Pent. ועשה את האחד מן התרים]
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Sumerian dar, Akkadian tarru, the proximate etymon and culture word (also Hebrew and Ugaritic) better known from its large version, for which see s.v. trngl, trnglˀ/trnwlˀ etc.
The example in Nat claims that this insect-eating bird never relaxes its wings. Apparently here a type of "swallow" rather than the biblical "turtle dove", but the Samaritan and Syriac examples have here been joined in a single lemma.
For possible appearance in Iranian see Ciancaglini, ILS p. 268.
Page refs. in other dictionaries: LS2: 1663[833]J. Payne-Smith: 619Tal Sam: 963BarBahlul: 2088:10

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