Number: 2644
Proto-Semitic: *šurr-
Meaning: navel, navel string
Ugaritic: šr 'ombligo' [Del Olmo 632]
Hebrew: šōr 'Nabelstrang, Nabel' [KB deutsch 1522]; PB šārār 'navel, umbilical cord' [Ja 1634]
Judaic Aramaic: šōrā 'umbilical cord' [Ja 1542]; šwr [Sok 542]
Syrian Aramaic: šerrā, šurtā 'umbilicus' [Brock 802]
Modern Aramaic: MMND šorra 'navel' [M MND 512]
Mandaic Aramaic: šura 'navel' [DM 456]
Arabic: surr-, sarar-, sirar- 'cordon ombilical' [BK 1 1075]
Mehri: *šīrɛ 'navel' [JM 395] (see comments below)
Harsusi: šerā do. [JH 124]
Soqotri: šíraḥ, pl. šireʕheten 'nombril' [LS 421]; also ŝiraḥ [LS 433].
In [SSL LS 1475] only forms with the initial š- and final -ʕ are given. Note that -ʕ, absent in this root in other SEM, may be due to contamination either with méŝǝräʕ 'tendon d'Achille' [SSL LS 1473] or with such forms attested only in JIB as s̃írɔ́ʕ 'navel' [JJ 267], mǝkráʕt 'swollen navel' [ibid. 133] (see comments below)
Notes: Note a controversial picture in MSA: MHR ŝīrɛ 'navel' seems a misprint for šīrɛ judging by the form šīrɛ́h quoted in the example given in [JM 395] and the fact that the word is placed under šrʕ. Cf., however, SOQ ŝiraḥ 'nombril' alongside with šíraḥ (and méŝǝräʕ 'tendon d'Achille', see *ŝVry/w- 'sinew, tendon', No. ). Note also JIB s̃írɔ́ʕ 'navel' [JJ 267] where s̃- at a first glance seems a palatalized variant of k- (cf. mǝkráʕt 'swollen navel' [ibid. 133]); however, registration of two forms, es̃ráʕ and ekráʕ both meaning '(children) to have a big, swollen navel' [ibid. 266] as well as forms with š (and ŝ-?) in other MSA languages rather suggest two parallel roots in JIB, one with k-, the other with s̃ (<*š-). Coexistence of terms with the radicals *šr(ʕ), *ŝrʕ (see in *ŝVry/w/ʕ-, No. ) and *krʕ with the same or close meaning in MSA is remarkable.
[KB deutsch 1522]: HBR, UGR, ARM, ARB; [Brock 802]: SYR, ARM, HBR, ARB; [LS 421]: SOQ, MSA, ARB, HBR, ARM
