كبل

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word كبل. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word كبل, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say كبل in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word كبل you have here. The definition of the word كبل will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofكبل, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

Arabic

Etymology

From Aramaic כַּבְלָא / ܟܒܠܐ (kaḇlā, keḇlā, fetter). Compare كَابُول (kābūl, net of a hunter) with an originally Aramaic-only pattern, and قُفْل (qufl, lock).

Pronunciation

Noun

كَبْل or كِبْل (kabl or kiblm (plural كُبُول (kubūl)) (obsolete)

  1. fetter, shackle, clog
    • a. 1064, Ibn Ḥazm al-ʾAndalusīy, مسهد القلب في خديه أدمعه (first line):
      جسم تخونت الأيام جثته … فعاد كالشن مرآه ومسمعه
      تناهبت نوب الدنيا محاسنه … فالضيم ملبسه والسجن موضعه
      يشكو إلى القيد ما يلقاه من ألم … فبالأنين لدى شكواه يرجعه
      يا هاجعا والرزايا لا تؤرقه … قل كيف نهجع من في الكبل مهجعه
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • a. 1207, ʿAlī Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Rustam Bahāʾ ad-Dīn Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn as-Sāʿātīy, سلا عنك قلبي بعد ما قيل لا يسلو (first line):
      حننت إليه حنة عربية … كما أطلق المأسور طال به الكبل
      I attached to it with Arabic passion … like a captured man upon whom a clog was stretched

Declension

Verb

كَبَلَ (kabala) I (non-past يَكْبِلُ (yakbilu), verbal noun كَبْل (kabl)) (obsolete)

  1. to fetter, to shackle

Conjugation

Verb

كَبَّلَ (kabbala) II (non-past يُكَبِّلُ (yukabbilu), verbal noun تَكْبِيل (takbīl)) (obsolete)

  1. to fetter, to shackle

Conjugation

References

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 243–244
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “كبل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 5
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “كبل”, 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 (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 856a
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “كبل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 950a–b