جبس

Late borrowing from Ancient Greek γύψος (gúpsos). Unknown whether related to جِصّ (jiṣṣ).

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒibs/

جِبْس • (jibs) m

1. gypsum
2. (synecdochically)
   1. parget, plaster
   2. mortar, grout

• جَبَّاسَة (jabbāsa, “gypsum quarry”)
• جَبَّسَ (jabbasa, “to apply gypsum on”)
• جِبْسِيّ (jibsiyy, “gypsum-related”)

• → Middle Armenian: ճիփս (čipʻs)
• → Spanish: aljez, gis

جَبَّسَ • (jabbasa) II (non-past يُجَبِّسُ (yujabbisu), verbal noun تَجْبِيس (tajbīs))

1. to apply gypsum on

• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 9
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “جبس”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 375
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “جبس”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 164

From Arabic جِبْس (jibs).

• IPA^(key): /ɡabs/, /ʒabs/

جبس • (gabs or jabs) m

1. gypsum
2. parget, plaster

Likely borrowed from Iranian, compare especially Northern Kurdish zebeş and jebeş as well as Zazaki debes. Ultimately from Middle Persian (hlbyck' /⁠xarbīzag⁠/, “watermelon”); a doublet of خِرْبِز (ḵirbiz, “melon”).

جبس • (jabas) m (collective, singulative جبسة f (jabase))

1. watermelon

• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “جبس”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 164