Number: 2136
Proto-Semitic: *ḳarn-
Meaning: horn
Akkadian: ḳarnu OA, OB on [CAD ḳ 134], [AHw 904]
Ugaritic: ḳrn [Aist 283]
Phoenician: PHO ḳrn [T 294]
Hebrew: ḳärän [KB 1144]
Aramaic: PLM ḳrnʔ [HJ 1034]
Biblical Aramaic: ḳärän (ḳarnā) [KB deutsch 1776]
Judaic Aramaic: ḳǝran, ḳärän (ḳarnā) [Ja 1422]; ḳrn [Sok 506]
Syrian Aramaic: ḳarnā [Brock 697]
Modern Aramaic: NSYR ḳāna 'Horn' [MP 122] MMND ḳarna [M MND 506] (given in brackets while a common term for 'horn' is šax) [M MND 506] IRAN *ḳānā (is written ḳrnʔ) 'il corno': c. suff. ḳânu 'il corno di lui'
Mandaic Aramaic: ḳarna [DM 403]
Arabic: ḳarn- [BK 2 727]
Geʕez (Ethiopian): ḳarn [LGz 442]
Tigre: ḳär, ḳärn [LH 242]
Tigrai (Tigriñña): ḳärni [Bass 255]
Amharic: ḳänd [K 791] (for *rn > nd in AMH see [Podolsky 51])
Gafat: ḳänd [Gaf 224]
Harari: ḳär [LHar 128]
East Ethiopic: SEL WOL ZWY ḳär [LGur 494]
Gurage: MUH GOG ḳär, CHA ENN END GYE ḳän, EZ̆A MSQ ḳänn [ibid.]
Mehri: ḳōn (pl. ḳǝrūn) [JM 236]
Jibbali: ḳun (pl. ḳérún) [JJ 150].
Note ḳǝrnút 'womb' representing, if not homonymous, an unusual semantic development
Harsusi: ḳōn (pl. ḳerōn) [JH 77]
Soqotri: ḳan (pl. ḳírihon) [LS 377]
Notes: Possibly <*ḳar-n-, cf. TGR ḳär with no traces of the lost *-n and similar forms in ETH EAST and GUR.
For discussion, AFRASIAN and broader connections (in KARTVELIAN and INDO-EUROPEAN), cf. [Dolg 1994 270-71].
Cf. SAB ḳrn 'to fight; to guard, to protect' [SD 107] with a possible meaning shift.
[Fron 43] (*ḳarn- 'corno' /GEZ,ARB,SYR,HBR,UGR,AKK/); [Holma 147]: AKK, ARB, HBR, SYR, GEZ; [KB 1144]: HBR, UGR, AKK, ARM, ARB, GEZ, TGR; [LGz 442]: GEZ, ETH, ARB, MHR, HBR, ARM, PHO, UGR
