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Number: 1724
Proto-Semitic: *ḳ(ʷ)alip-
Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology
Meaning: scale; shell; (hard) skin; foreskin (?); peel; bark of tree
Akkadian: ḳilpu 'skin, peel (of a fruit)' OB on [CAD ḳ 250], [AHw 921]; ḳuliptu 'scale, scaly skin (of a snake, fish)', tortoise shell; husk, rind, bark, peel' OB on [CAD ḳ 296], ḳulēptu do. [AHw 926]
Judaic Aramaic: ḳalp̄ā, ḳilp̄ā 'split parchment; scaly surface, scab; (pl.) scales' [Ja 1381]; ḳlph, det. ḳlpth 'scab' [Sok 495], ḳlpy, det. ḳlpyth do. [ibid.]
Syrian Aramaic: ḳǝlāpǝtā 'cortex, squama, putamen' [Brock 670]
Modern Aramaic: MAL ḳelfa 'Schale' [Berg 69] HRT ḳelpa 'Schale' [J Hert 196] NASS ḳalpa 'husk, peel, bark' [Tser 1085]
Mandaic Aramaic: ḳlapta, ḳlupta 'shell, carapace, hard casing, hard skin' [DM 413]
Arabic: ḳalafat-, ḳulfat- 'prépuce' [BK 2 805] (cf. ḳilf-, ḳalaf- 'circoncision' [ibid.]); ḳilf- 'écorce d'arbre; peau de la grenade' [ibid.]
Geʕez (Ethiopian): ḳʷǝlfat 2
East Ethiopic: ZWY ḳǝlfi 'bark of tree' [LGur 476]
Mehri: ḳǝlēfūt 'bark of a tree' [JM 230]
Jibbali: ḳiẑifɔ́t 'dried bark of a tree' [JJ 145]
Harsusi: ḳelfēt
Soqotri: ḳalífoh 'écorce' [LS 376]
Notes: Anatomic meanings unseparable from non-anatomic ones (note that only 'bark of a tree' is preserved in ZWY and MSA).

    The meaning 'foreskin, prepuce' attested in ARB and GEZ (cf. also SYR ḳǝlāpǝtā, for which the meaning 'foreskin' is given in [LGz 427] without reference, not to be found in [Brock] and [Payne-Smith]) is likely to be reconstructed as common SEM.

    Note that HBR PB ḳäläp 'split parchment' [Ja 1381], with its cultural meaning only, must be a borrowing from ARM JUD, with its obvious meaning shift from the anatomic to the cultural term.

    Cf. derived verbs in AKK ḳalāpu 'to peel, to skin' OA OB on [CAD ḳ 58], [AHw 893]; HBR PB ḳlp 'to scrape, peel, pare' [Ja 1381]; JUD ḳlp do. [ibid.], MND ḳlp 'to remove (outer skin), to shell, peel' [DM 413]; ARB ḳlf 'dépouiller d'écorce (un arbre); circoncire (un garc̣on)' [BK 2 805]; GEZ ḳʷalafa 'to peel, decorticate' [LGz 427] (one wonders whether labialization of ḳʷ- is due to -f-); MHR ḳǝlōf 'to peel (dried sardines); skin (the bark off a tree)' [JM 230], JIB ḳɔ́lɔ́f 'to skin, decorticate; to skin (a dried sardine before eating it)' [JJ 145].

    Cf. *gilp-, No. .

    [Holma 146]: AKK, HBR PB, JUD, SYR, ARB, GEZ; [LGz 427]: GEZ, ETH, ARB, SOQ, HBR, ARM, AKK; [LS 376]: SOQ, ARB, HBR PB, GEZ, AKK

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