ܐܶܣܘܳܪ swr eswār horseman
MP aswār [ʾswbʾl, ʾspwʾl] horseman, rider (CPD 13); ManMP ʾswʾr /aswār/ horseman, rider (Durkin-Meisterernst 2004, 56); OP asa-bāra- (see Nyberg 33) and *aspabāra- horseman (Hinz 1975, 43); Parth. (Nisa) ʾsbʾr[y] (Gignoux 1972, 47); Bactr. ασβαροβιδο (Henning 1962); Choresmian proper name Aspabārak ʾ(Y)SPBR(D)K (in brackets the alternative readings): Henning 1958, 25. See also Bolognesi 1960, 12; Huyse 1999/2, 155. NP suvār id. (Steingass 705). — Akkad. as-pa-bar; Off. Aram. ʾspbr (Bowman 1970, 31: 2). Reborrowed word in Aramaic, but perhaps also in Syriac, if we can rely on the information given by Andreas, quoted by Christensen 1944, 104, n. 1, according to whom in the Syr. Julian Romance (probably fifth century; edited by G. Hoffmann, Julianos der Abtrünnige, Leyde 1880, p. 156) the unique occurrence of Syr. aspabar is attested (but Christensen believes that the form is only a scribal error for aspabad: cf. the next entry; see also Nöldeke 1874b, 275) ● KwDW 326, 3; 7 and 18 ◆ LS 32b