ܩܛܪܩܐ qṭrqʾ, ܩܛܹܪܩܵܐ qṭyrqʾ qṭerqā 1. quiver; 2. part of a building
Old, pre-Sasanian loanword, already attested in the 2nd cent. AD; borrowed from an antecedent of MP kantigr [kntgl] quiver (CPD 49); NP kantīr id. (Horn 282); see Nöldeke 1898 § 87; Shaked 1987, 261. Syr. qṭrqʾ, qṭyrqʾ presupposes the metathesis of the final Ir. cluster ● quiver Job 39, 23; Js 49, 2; ψ 127 (6) 5; ES 1, 405C; IA 2, 278, 801; Bh chr 538, 24; part of a building Bh KJ 78u ◆ LS 664a; Lagarde GA 80, 205