Arabic-L:LING:Needs etymology for place-name Zuweirah

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Date: 30 May 2014
From: Daniel Hunt <danielhunt60 at gmail.com>
Subject: Needs etymology for place-name Zuweirah

Dear Listserv Members:

Is there any good etymology for the place-name Zuweirah on the west coast
of the southern Dead Sea?  I find several early references to this possibly
being an Arabic form (ancient or more recent) for the Biblical Zoar.  Some
weight seems to be attached to the idea, as the place and its wadi are hard
by Jebel Usdum or 'Mount Sodom'.

I do realize that typically Zoar (or Segor, Zogora) is placed to the SE of
the Dead Sea, and that a very controversial case has been made for finding
it somewhere to the north.

Thank you for any help you may be able to provide.

Respectfully,

Daniel Hunt

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