Note 14 — THE SAY OF HAYKAR THE SAGE.[6]

Arab. “Arz,” from the Heb. Arz or Razah (✓ raz = to vibrate), the root κέδρος (cedrus conifera), the Assyrian “Erimu of Lebanon,” of which mention is so often made. The old controversy as to whether “Razah” = cedar or fir, might easily have been settled if the disputants had known that the modern Syrians still preserve the word for the clump called “The Cedars” on the seaward slope of the Libanus.