are common pronunciations of /q/ in Arabic dialects, but how does he getG(h)omorra thing is highly unlikely, speculative at most, simply because if
both as reflexes of an earlier ghayin? Presumably a preserved Hebrew
ghayin' whould pass into Arabic unchanged. If 'Goumran' is meant to start
with 'ghayin', why would it become /q/?
As I said before, from a linguistic point of view the whole Qumran <~>
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