Number: 2355
Proto-Semitic: *ʕVrw/y-
Meaning: kind of wild cat
Amorite: ʕurwat- 'lion' [BK 2 238], [LA XV 51].
Ugaritic: waʕro 'leonessa' [Bass. 653]. // Metathesis. Hardly to be connected with "*ʔarw-, terme qui désigne des bêtes sauvages diverses" as suggested in [DRS 581].
Canaanite: ʔáyri (pl. ʔarēwǝt) 'tom-cat' [JM 28].
Phoenician: ʕéri (pl. aʕrét) id. [JJ 15].