ܩܪܒܐ

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From Aramaic קְרָב (qrāḇ); also borrowed as Akkadian 𒋡𒊏𒁍 (/⁠qarābu⁠/) and Hebrew קְרָב (krav).

ܩܪܒܐ • (qərāḇā) m (plural ܩܪܒܐ)

1. war, battle, fight
   • Peshitta, Luke 21, 9.

     ܘܡܐ ܕܫܡܥܝܢ ܐܢܬܘܢ ܩܪ̈ܒܐ ܘܫܓܘܫ̈ܝܐ ܠܐ ܬܕܚܠܘܢ

     When you hear about wars and uprisings, don't fear, (...)

2. (military) line of battle

• ܫܝܢܐ (šaynā)

From the root ܩ-ܪ-ܒ (q-r-b) related to approaching. Cognate with Arabic قَرَابَة (qarāba, “nearness”).

ܩܪܒܐ • (qərāḇā) m (plural ܩܪܒܐ)

1. nearness

• “qrb”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2012-02-29
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, p. 329a
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 517b
• Sokoloff, Michael (2009) A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana, Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press, p. 1401b

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