Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

Root
ك ب ر (k-b-r)

Cognate to Hebrew כבר (k-b-r, “to be great”, “to be many”).

Pronunciation edit

  • (file)
  • IPA(key): /ka.bu.ra/
  • (Gulf Arabic) IPA(key): /ˈkɪbɐr/
  • (Hijazi Arabic) IPA(key): /ˈkibir/

Verb edit

كَبُرَ (kabura) I, non-past يَكْبُرُ‎ (yakburu) (stative)

  1. to be or become big
  2. to grow, to grow up
  3. to become famous
  4. to become too great (for something)
  5. to disdain
  6. to become too oppressive
  7. to appear intolerable
  8. to become too difficult
Conjugation edit

Noun edit

كُبْر (kubrm

  1. verbal noun of كَبُرَ (kabura) (form I)
Declension edit

Verb edit

كَبَرَ (kabara) I, non-past يَكْبُرُ‎ (yakburu)

  1. (stative, transitive) to be older than
    • 1949, Naguib Mahfouz, The beginning and the end, Dar El-Shorouk, page 6:
      يَكْبُرُ أَخَاهُ بِعَامَيْنِ
      yakburu ʾaḵāhu bi-ʿāmayni
      He is two years older than his brother
Conjugation edit

Noun edit

كَبْر (kabrm

  1. verbal noun of كَبَرَ (kabara) (form I)
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Verb edit

كَبَّرَ (kabbara) II, non-past يُكَبِّرُ‎ (yukabbiru)

  1. (transitive, causative) to enlarge, to make something bigger.
  2. (intransitive) to say اَللّٰهُ أَكْبَر (allāhu ʔakbar, God is greatest)
Conjugation edit
Descendants edit
  • Maltese: kabbar

Noun edit

كُبَر (kubarpl (singular كُبْرَى (kubrā))

  1. great calamities
Declension edit

Etymology 2 edit

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Proper noun edit

كُبَّر (kubbarf

  1. Kubbar, an uninhabited island in the Bay of Kuwait
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Etymology 3 edit

 
 
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From Classical Syriac ܩܦܪ (qappar, qappār, caper-bush) or Classical Syriac ܟܦܪ (kappar, kappār), considered from Ancient Greek κάππαρις (kápparis) of uncertain likely Asian origin.
For the variation aā in Aramaisms, compare سُكَّر (sukkar), سُكَّار (sukkār, bolt-lock) and قُنْبَر (qunbar), قُنْبَار (qunbār), كُنْبَار (kunbār, coir).

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

كَبَر (kabarm

  1. caper (Capparis gen. and especially Capparis spinosa, as well as the edible buds from it)
    Synonyms: شَفَلَّح (šafallaḥ), عِتْر (ʕitr), لَصَف (laṣaf)
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Etymology 4 edit

Borrowed from Ge'ez ከበሮ (käbäro, drum, timbrel).

Noun edit

كَبَر (kabarm (plural كِبَار (kibār) or أَكْبَار (ʔakbār))

  1. (obsolete) drum, timbrel
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References edit

  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “كبر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 3–4
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “كبر”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 853
  • Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden[3] (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 322–331
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft[4] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 56
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “كبر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1081–1083

South Levantine Arabic edit

Root
ك ب ر
3 terms

Etymology edit

From Arabic كَبَّرَ (kabbara).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /kab.bar/, [ˈkab.bar]
  • (file)

Verb edit

كبّر (kabbar) II (present بكبّر (bikabber))

  1. to enlarge
  2. (by extension) to exaggerate
    Synonym: بالغ (bālaḡ)

Conjugation edit

    Conjugation of كبّر (kabbar)
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m كبّرت (kabbart) كبّرت (kabbart) كبّر (kabbar) كبّرنا (kabbarna) كبّرتو (kabbartu) كبّرو (kabbaru)
f كبّرتي (kabbarti) كبّرت (kabbarat)
present m بكبّر (bakabber) بتكبّر (bitkabber) بكبّر (bikabber) منكبّر (minkabber) بتكبّرو (bitkabbru) بكبّرو (bikabbru)
f بتكبّري (bitkabbri) بتكبّر (bitkabber)
subjunctive m اكبّر (akabber) تكبّر (tkabber) يكبّر (ykabber) نكبّر (nkabber) تكبّرو (tkabbru) يكبّرو (ykabbru)
f تكبّري (tkabbri) تكبّر (tkabber)
imperative m كبّر (kabber) كبّرو (kabbru)
f كبّري (kabbri)