Number: 16
Proto-Semitic: *sVrw(-ay)- ~ (?) *sVran-
Meaning: '(military) chief, prince'
Ugaritic: Cf. srn 'prince' (DUL, 770)
Hebrew: Cf. sǝrānīm 'Stadtfürsten' (pl.) (KB deutsch, 727)
Arabic: sarīr- 'dignité royale, royauté' BK I 1076, sarw- 'chef, prince', srw 'ê. genéreux et d'un caractère mâle' BK I 1085
Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab s1rwyt 'campaigning force' (considered a Gz loanword by Müller) (SD, 128)
Geʕez (Ethiopian): sarwe 'army, troops; military leader; virile, robust' (LGz 515)
Tigre: sǝrot, pl. särwat 'relation, tribe, kind' (LH, 178)
Tigrai (Tigriñña): särawit 'army' (KT, 678)
Amharic: särwe 'leader' (LGz 515, K 491) (< Gz?)
East Ethiopic: Zwy. ṭor särawit 'army' (LGur, 563)
Gurage: End ṭōr särawit, So sǝrayǝt 'army' (LGur, 563)
Notes: Highly problematic. Ugr and Hbr are considered non-Sem loanwords. Arb is otherwise related to Akk šarru 'king' < Sem *šarr- < Afras *sarr-.
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