Number: 2599
Proto-Semitic: *ḳanṭ-ā/īr-
Meaning: small penis; clitoris; female genital organ
Modern Aramaic: Tur. ḳūṭo 'vulva (von frauen)' (Ritter 404), N.-Syr. ḳūṭā 'the womb' (M 272; according to Maclean, a loanword from Kurdish ḳūz)
Arabic: ḳanṭ- 'verge chez un petit garc̣on' [BK 2 822]
Modern Arabic: DAT_ ḳanṭār 'clitoris' [GD 2533]
Tigrai (Tigriñña): ḳǝnṭ 'vulva; lower or back part' (LH 252)
Amharic: ḳǝnṭǝr 'clitoris, female genital organ' [K 136] (cf. ḳiṭ 'buttocks, anus' K 826)
East Ethiopic: SEL WOL ḳǝnṭǝr 'clitoris, female genital organ' [LGur 490]
Gurage: CHA EZ̆A ENN GYE MUH MSQ ḳǝnṭǝr do. [ibid.].
Leslau also quotes similar CUSH forms [ibid.]
Soqotri: ḳánṭhir 'vulve' [SSL LS 1463] (after the unpublished notes by T.M.Jonstone); otherwise ḳánther [LS 379], [SSL LS 1463] (-h- points to a long vowel in the proto-form)
Notes: Vocalism not quite reliable. Attested only in the S. SEM area; a possibility of an areal term, not of a common SEM origin, is not to be excluded.
[LS 379]: SOQ, ETH; [LGur 490]: GUR, ETH, SOQ, ARB (DAT_)
