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- Egyptian · learned borrowing fromjꜣrw“reeds”
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Learned borrowing from Egyptian jꜣrw (“reeds”) as rendered in the outdated 19th-century transcription scheme developed by Karl Richard Lepsius (ȧaru), part of the complete term sḫt-jꜣrw (literally “field of reeds”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.