See a derived verb in AMH gʷärräbä; gʷärba gʷärba alä 'to have blisters on the hand etc.; to be covered with blisters' [K 1934] (labialization of the velar under the influence of -b- ?).

    MSA examples may well be Arabisms.

    Cf. E. CHAD: SUMRAY gaberi 'syphilis' compared as a metathetic form to SEM in [O-S 203]; an interesting case hardly, however, sufficient for a common AFRASIAN reconstruction.

    [Fron 40] (*garab- 'scabbia' /ARB,SYR,HBR,AKK/); [DRS 178]: AKK, HBR, ARM, ARB, MSA, ETH; [KB 201]: HBR, ARM, ARB, AKK, TGR; [Brock 130]: SYR, ARM, HBR, AKK, ARB; [LS 114]: SOQ, JIB, SYR, ARM, HBR, AKK, ARB