ليف

Etymology
From the root meaning “to fold up or roll up in”, “to wrap or envelop”, “an envelope of a plant, a pericarp or glume”.

Also suspicious of substrate however, as 🇨🇬 means “parietary” and “arum” or “”, deriving well from, and the form  is stronger in the dialects with the additional meaning of “arum”, which is mentioned for Syriac already in the 1st-century Dioskurides interpolations 2:167. Compare the Aramaic-borrowed and  from similar semantic domain.

Noun

 * 1) fibres, spongy interior of a plant
 * 2) a handheld sponge
 * 3)  (genus and species)
 * 4) fibres, tubular cells of bodily tissue

Verb

 * 1) to have much fibre
 * 2) to rub with fibre or a sponge