زبور

Etymology

 * From the root, meaning “to be well composed, to be well written”, “to be engraved or written skillfully”, a variant of – ,  –, which latter root is declared to be from the Himyaritic dialect and either cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 or one of the many descendants of  present in words like , ,  , , , ,.
 * Less likely a variation of the root, meaning "to play a pipe or reed", "use a musical instrument", "to make music or play a melody"; semantically borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) the Psalms
 * 2) a writing, composition
 * 3) psalter