Karfos

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Karfos arabice vespertilio.


Apparatus:

In B the entry is not rubricated, but is part of the section headworded Karea.

All of Simon's witnesses have Karfos and if it is to portray, as is most likely, Arabic ﺧﻔﺎﺶ /ḫuffāš/, then original 'ff' must at an early stage have been misread as 'rf'.


Translation:

Karfos is Arabic for Latin vespertilio {"bat"}.


Commentary:

Wehr (1976): ﺧﻔﺎﺶ /ḫuffāš/ "bat (zool.)".


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