Hebrew:ŝǝʕōrā 'the hairy, grainy kernel-fruit, barley' (HAL 1346)
Judaic Aramaic:sǝʕartā 'barley' (Ja. 1010)
Syrian Aramaic:sǝʕārǝtā 'hordeum' (Brock. 489)
Mandaic Aramaic:sara 'barley' (DM 315)
Arabic:cf. šuʕr- coll. 'plantes, arbres (tout ce qui constitue, pour ainsi dire, le poile du sol); safran', šaʕār- 'arbres touffus et entrelacés qui servent d'ombrage l'été et d'abri l'hiver; végétatoin' (BK I 1238)
Mehri:ŝɛ̄r 'straw' (JM 370); cf. šǝʕīr (JM 391) 'barley', very likely an Arabism.
Jibbali:ŝáʕǝr 'dry grass, straw' (JJ 244); cf. šiʕír (JJ 259) 'barley', very likely an Arabism.
Soqotri:cf. šáʕir 'orge' (LS 420), very likely an Arabism.
Notes:Dolgopolsky explains -ʕ- as the result of contamination, after popular etymology, with Sem. *ŝaʕr- 'hair', which is quite plausible; an alternative explanation is the influence of *ŝi/uʕ(V̄ʕ)- 'barley'
Akkadian:šeʔu 'barley, grain' (CAD b1, 345; this reading have been recently doubted by Huehnergard), šuʔu 'pulse, chickpea' Nuzi MA on (CAD š3, 416; AHw, 1294)
Hebrew:pB. šǝʕūʕīt 'a species of beans' (Ja., 1610)
Cf. kǝnfār, konfār 'hump, arm, front of leg of an animal' [LGz 287]), with a meaning shift 'the projecting part of the head' > 'the projecting parts of the body'?
Tigre:känfär, kämfär 'lip' [LH 418]
Tigrai (Tigriñña):känfär 'labbro' [Bass 608]
Amharic:känfär 'lip, brim' [K 1446]
Gurage:CHA EŽA ENN GYE MUH MSQ GOG SOD känfär, END käfär 'lip' [LGur 345]
Notes:Only ARB and ETH supported, however, by AFRASIAN. Both meanings of the proto-form are easily compatible if refer to the tip of animal's muzzle/snout.
There is little doubt that the ARB example is cognate of the ETH ones which therefore are not borrowed from CUSH (see comprehensive discussion in [LGz 287]).
Note the meaning 'edge, brim' in ETH to compare with AKK kibru (kipru) 'edge, shore, bank' OA on [CAD k 334], [AHw 471]; though in both sources kibru is quoted as the basic form, it may rather be kipru (<*kinpVr-), if the comparison is valid. In this case one must assume either an homonymy of the two SEM terms, 'tip of the muzzle/snout; lip' and 'edge, brim ' or a derivation of the former from the latter implied by the AFRASIAN cognates.
That the root is "expressive" may account for a series of variant roots in ARB (kunt_ur-, kant_arat- 'gland du pénis; mufle, bout du museau de l'âne [BK 2 933]; ḳanfar-, ḳunfūr- 'verge, pénis; orifice' [ibid. 825]) and MSA (MHR QISHN kǝrfī́f 'lip' [SSL 1 278], HRS kerōf 'to sniff' [JH 69], JIB kɛrféf 'face' [JJ 134] and metathetic ḳǝfrér 'lip' [SSL 1 279]).
[LGz 287]: GEZ, ETH, ARB (comparison with AKK kipru and MSA kǝrfī́f etc. considered unlikely)
