قبقاب

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Arabic

قَبْقَاب
 قبقاب on Arabic Wikipedia

Etymology

From the root ق ب ب (q-b-b), meaning “the side of an animal”, “the belly or abdomen” suggested by Lane to ultimately be onomatopoeic in origin from the sound of a rumbling stomach. It is in this location where a saddle rests, hence derives the sense of a wood suitable for carving and shaping. Related to قَيْقَب (qayqab) and ق و ب (q-w-b), meaning “to carve, peel, or hollow out wood”. Compare Ge'ez ቆጶን (ḳop̣p̣on) – a Cushitic borrowing –, Oromo kopē, kopʿē, Harari ኩብካብ (kubkab), Tigre ቅረቃብ (ḳəräḳab), Gurage ቈቤ (ḳʷäbe), Beja kobā. Dozy suggests an ultimately Old South Arabian origin, a regional wanderwort.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qab.qaːb/, /qub.qaːb/

Noun

قَبْقَاب or قُبْقَاب (qabqāb or qubqābm (plural قَبَاقِيب (qabāqīb))

  1. patten, clog, chopine

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References

  • Beyene, Taddese, editor (1989), Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, University of Addis Ababa, 1984, volume 2, Addis Ababa: Institute of Ethiopian Studies, page 635
  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), “قبقاب”, in Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 999
  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), “قرابقي”, in Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1014, where an occupational قَرَابِقِيّ (qarābiqiyy, clog-maker)
  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), “قرقب”, in Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1023
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “قرقب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 335
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “قبقاب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 303
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1845) Dictionnaire détaillé des noms des vêtements chez les arabes (in French), Amsterdam: Jean Müller, pages 347–349
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “قبقاب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 392
  • Freytag, Georg (1861) Einleitung in das Studium der Arabischen Sprache bis Mohammed und zum Theil später zum allgemeinen Gebrauche auch für die, welche nicht Hebräisch und Arabisch treiben (in German), Bonn: Adolph Marcus, page 118, from 112
  • Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 438

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic قُبْقَاب (qubqāb).

Pronunciation

Noun

قبقاب (gubgābm (plural قباقيب (gabāgīb))

  1. patten, clog, chopine