Number: 2370
Proto-Semitic: *bVr-
Meaning: kind of bird
Hebrew: barbūr 'a bird fattened to be eaten by king Solomon' [KB 154]. // Hapax in 1R 5.3 in the "additional list" of meat animals forming Solomon's diet (lǝbad mēʔayyāl ūṣǝbī wǝyaḥmūr ūbarbūrīm ʔăbūsīm 'apart from deer, gazelle, roe and fattened b.'). While the context itself does not provide explicit evidence for understanding b. as a kind of bird, there is an old tradition of its understanding in this way (cf. Jerome's avium altilium).
Tigrai (Tigriñña): bareto 'tortorella' [Bass. 315].
Amharic: baret, bareto 'pigeon, dove' [K 884].
Notes: Not very reliable. The Arb. forms ʔabū burbur 'cuckoo' and birbir 'chicken' are not present in the available dictionaries of Classical Arabic (for the last term v. [Baranov 63]).
