Arabic

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Root
ك ب ر (k b r)
9 terms

Etymology

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It is doubted that the formation, otherwise paralleled in the name of the seventh heaven عِرْبِيَاء (ʕirbiyāʔ) ~ جِرْبِياء (jirbiyāʔ), is native, since only in Ge'ez the root of ከብረ (käbrä) has acquired the meanings of “haughtiness”; كِبْر (kibr, glory, pride, power) also directly corresponds to Ge'ez ክብር (kəbr).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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كِبْرِيَاء (kibriyāʔf

  1. greatness
  2. pride, arrogance, haughtiness
  3. power

Declension

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References

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  • Ahrens, Karl (1930) “Christliches im Qoran. Eine Nachlese”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft[1] (in German), volume 84, page 23
  • Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, page 248
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “كبرياء”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[2], London: W.H. Allen, page 871b