ቀራድ

Cognate to Tigrinya ቍርዲድ (ḳʷərdid), ቈርዳድ (ḳʷärdad, “tick”), Harari ቁርዱድ (ḳurdud, “tick”), Arabic قُرَاد‎ (qurād, “tick”), Classical Syriac ܩܪܕܐ‎ (qerdā, “tick”), Ancient Greek κροτών (krotṓn, “tick”).

ቀራድ • (ḳärad) (plural አቅርደት (ʾäḳərdät))

1. tick, ixodid

• Kogan, Leonid; Bulakh, Maria (2011-03-08), “Arabic influences on Tigre: A preliminary evaluation”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, volume 74, issue 1, →DOI, page 12, claims it borrowed from Arabic due to the pattern and the plural allegedly mirroring the Arabic plural أَقْرِدَة‎ (ʔaqrida), which is so rare that no one has appears to have ever written it on the web.
• Leslau, Wolf (1982) North Ethiopic and Amharic cognates in Tigre (Supplemento n. 31 al Vol. 42 fasc. 2 (Annali))‎, Napoli: Istituto universitario Orientale, page 61, claims it borrowed from Arabic in spite of the dissimilar Tigrinya cognate
• Littmann, Enno; Höfner, Maria (1962), “ቀራድ”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI), Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 244a