Root ʿ-š-r

Arabic ↔ Ugaritic

Both languages share identical consonants at this root —ʿ-š-r↔ 𐎓-𐎌-𐎗. No Proto-Semitic sound change separates them here.

Arabic

root: ʿ-š-r

عَشْرʕašrnum☪︎ Q.2:60
masculine of عَشَرَة (ʕašara, “ten”)
عَشَرَʕašaranum☪︎ Q.2:60
-teen (in numerals 11–19, e.g. أَحَدَ عَشَرَ (ʔaḥada ʕašara, “eleven”))
عُشُرʕušurnoun☪︎ Q.2:60
one tenth
عُشَرʕušarnoun☪︎ Q.2:60
apple of Sodom (Calotropis procera) as well as crown flower (Calotropis gigantea), milkweed (the genus Calotropis, which has only these two species and Calotropis acia in India)
عَاشَرَʕāšaraverb☪︎ Q.2:60
to befriend
عَشَّارʕaššārnoun☪︎ Q.2:60
tither, publican, who collects tithes or other levies
عِشَارʕišārnoun☪︎ Q.2:60
full-term she-camels
عِشْرُونَʕišrūnanum☪︎ Q.2:60
twenty

root: 𐎓-𐎌-𐎗

Canonical root family: ʿ-š-r