--- R: /ˈart/ W: 土 X: 🌍 --- ## Descendants ### East Semitic - Akkadian: 𒆠 (erṣetum) ### West Semitic #### Central Semitic - Arabic: أَرْض (ʔarḍ) - Gulf Arabic: ارض (arḏ̣) - Maltese: art - → Afar: árdi - → Somali: arli - → Swahili: ardhi - → Zazaki: erd - → Northern Kurdish: erd - → Ottoman Turkish: ارض - Turkish: arz - → Persian: ارض #### Northwest Semitic ##### Aramaic - Imperial Aramaic: 𐡀𐡓𐡒 (ʾrq) - Biblical Aramaic: ארק - Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אַרְעָא (ʾarʿā) - Classical Syriac: ܐܰܪܥܳܐ (ʾarʿā) ##### Canaanite - Hebrew: אֶרֶץ (ʾérets, ʾéreṣ) - Moabite: 𐤀𐤓𐤑 (ʾrṣ) - Phoenician: 𐤀𐤓𐤑 (ʾrṣ, /ʾerṣ/) - Punic: 𐤀𐤓𐤑 (ʾrṣ, /ʾars/) - Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎗𐎕 (ʾarṣ, /ʾarṣu/) ### Old South Arabian - Hadrami: 𐩱𐩧𐩳 (ʾrḍ) - Minaean: 𐩱𐩧𐩳 (ʾrḍ) - Qatabanian: 𐩱𐩧𐩳 (ʾrḍ) - Sabaean: 𐩱𐩧𐩳 (ʾrḍ) ### Modern South Arabian - Shehri: ʾɛrẓ̂ ### Possible External Cognate - Egyptian: rṯnw (tentative)