ܦܬܰܟܪܳܐ ptkrʾ ptakrā idol
Derivatives: ܦܬܲܟܪܬܵܐ ptkrtʾ ptakrṯā (fem.) idol of a goddess; ܦܬܲܟܪܘܿܢܵܐ ptkrwnʾ ptakrōnā little idol; ܦܬܲܟܪܘܼܬܵܐ ptkrwtʾ ptakrūṯā idolatry; ܦܬܲܟܪܵܝܵܐ ptkryʾ ptakrāyā pertaining to idols
OP patikāra (Acc. plur.); MP patkar [ptkly; Parth. ptkr] image (Nyberg 157); MP pahikar [ptkl] picture, image (CPD 63; Horn 80); ManMP phykr /pahikar/ painting, image; ManParth. pdkr, pdqr /padkar/ image, statue (Durkin-Meisterernst 2004, 269 and 275); Arm. LW patker (Hübschmann AG 224, no. 516); Gr. πάταχρα: εἴδωλα (LXX, Isaia 8, 21); NP paykar. — Off. Aram. ptkr sculpture, image (Greenfield 1987, 257; Shaked 1987, 259; Hinz 1975, 187: ptkrkr ← OP *patikarakara-; Benveniste 1954, 307; Driver 1957, 72 f.) Talm. Aram. ptkrʾ Idol (Telegdi 253 f., 120); Md. pʾtykrʾ patikrā (Widengren 99, Nöldeke MG 27); Arab. fiktar (Fraenkel 1886, 273 f.). According to Widengren, the Md., Syr. and Arm. forms come from MIr. *patkar, whereas the true SW form would be paykar, attested in NP; but the word, appearing already in Off. Aram. (where it must have been borrowed from OP), is a very much older loanword, inherited by the Middle Aramaic varieties ● ptkrʾ Jud 6, 25; 1Sm 31, 9; 2Sm 5, 21; Afr 207, 1; ER 126, 1; AS 3, 26, 24; ptkrtʾ 1Rg 15, 13, cf. ES 1, 482E; ER 8, 3; Mar 76, 7; JSB 5, 397, 2; ptkrwnʾ JS ZDMG 29, 110 v 41; 115, 194; Th Marg 1 CLXIV, 7 = RHRB 80, 14; ptkrwtʾ ES 2, 265F; JS in asd 96, 8; MS 1, 34, 25; ptkryʾ Za Rh 6, 32 = PO 2, 27, 8 ◆ LS 617b; Lagarde GA 79, 201; Russell 2001–2002, 71 n. 70