جرذ

Etymology
From the root related to gnawing the exterior off, a variation like in the also common  from. In dialects also, and , but a stop for this spirant is common in dialects. It finds cognates in 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and is alleged to be an inter-Semitic borrowing, specifically passed into Arabic from, and ultimately an loanword based on the trade of castoreum comparing 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, obsolete rare 🇨🇬, metathetical 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, which are brought together with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 to claim a  or similar but are in turn due the consonant variations suspected by Schwartz to be from Semitic although he also pondered the reverse direction, not acquainted with Semitic cognates to the Arabic, himself proposing a derivation from the stem of 🇨🇬 (probably a 🇨🇬 borrowing) which is in 🇨🇬 with a base meaning “to bite, to sting”,.

Noun

 * 1) rat (without any qualifying adjective sensu strictu referring to  gen. et spp. and  gen. et spp.)

Adjective

 * 1) infested with rats