deriv► kabīr al-ʔaṭibbāʔ, n., head physician
► kabīraẗ al-ḫadam, n.f., female head of the household staff
► kabīr al-ʔasāqifaẗ, n.f., archbishop
► kabīr al-sinn, adj., old
► kabīr al-quḍāẗ, n., chief justice, chief magistrate
► ʔabū kabīr, n., asafetida, devil’s dung (pharm.): perh. not belonging here but to ↗kibrīt.
► kull ṣaġīraẗ wa-kabīraẗ, expr., every single detail
► kibār al-ḍubbāṭ, n.pl., senior officers
► kibār al-muwaẓẓafīn, n.pl., senior officials
► kibār al-hayʔāt, n.pl., the leading personalities of public corporations ► ► kabara u (kabr) to exceed in age (bi‑ by), be older; — BP#1925kabura u (kubr, kibar, kabāraẗ) 1 to be or become great, big, large; to grow, increase, augment, become greater, bigger or larger; to become too great, too big, too large (ʕan for s.th.); 2 to become famous, gain significance, become important; 3 to disdain (ʕan s.th.); 4 to become too oppressive, too painful, too distressing, too burdensome; to appear intolerable (ʕalà to s.o.); to become too difficult, too hard (ʕalà for s.o.), appear insurmountable (ʕalà to s.o.): prob. denom. | kaburat nafsu-h, expr., he felt emboldened, he was, or became, proud and courageous.
► kabbara, vb. II, 1 to make great(er), big(ger), large(r), enlarge, magnify, enhance, aggrandize; to extend, expand, widen, amplify; to increase, augment; to intensify; 2 to exaggerate, play up; to aggravate, make worse; 3 to praise, laud, extol, exalt, glorify, celebrate: D-stem, caus.; 4 to exclaim allāhu akbar : denom. from ʔakbarᵘ.
► kābara, vb. III, 1 to treat haughtily, with disdain, with contempt (s.o.); 2 to seek to excel, try to surpass, strive to outdo (s.o.); to contend, vie, strive, contest with; 3 to oppose, resist, contradict; to renege, renounce, offend against, act contrary to; 4 to stickle, insist stubbornly on one’s opinion: L-stem, assoc.
► ʔakbara, vb. IV, 1 to consider great, deem significant, regard as formidable (s.th.); 2 to praise, laud, extol (s.o.); 3 to show respect, be deferential toward; 4 to admire: Š-stem, declar. | ʔakbara šaʔna-hū (or ~ min šaʔni-hī), expr., to extol s.o.
► takabbara, vb. V, and takābara, vb. VI, to be proud or haughty, give o.s. airs, swagger; to be overweening, overbearing (ʕalà toward s.o.): tD-stem, intr./refl. of II.
► ĭstakbara, vb. X, 1 to deem great or important (s.th.); 2 to be proud, haughty, display arrogance (ʕalà toward s.o.): Št-stem. ► BP#3569kibr, n., bigness, largeness, magnitude; greatness, eminence, grandeur; significance, importance; standing, prestige; nobility; pride, haughtiness, presumption, arrogance: quasi-vn., may itself be the etymon proper.
► kubr, n., 1 greatness, eminence, grandeur; bigness, largeness, magnitude; size, bulk, extent, expanse; 2 power, might; 3 glory, fame, renown, standing, prestige; 4 nobility; 5 main part, bulk: quasi-vn., may itself be the etymon proper.
► kibar, n., 1 bigness, largeness, magnitude; greatness, eminence, grandeur; 2 old age: quasi-vn., may itself be the etymon proper.
► kabraẗ, n.f., old age: vn.f., from kabura.
► kabīraẗ, pl. ‑āt, kabāʔirᵘ, kubur, n.f., great sin, grave offense, atrocious crime: nominalized adj. f., fig. use.
► kubār, kubbār, adj., very great, very big, huge: ints. formation (?).
► kibriyāʔᵘ, n.f., grandeur, glory, magnificence, majesty; pride, haughtiness, presumption, arrogance: etymologically related to kabīr etc., but itself perhaps a loan, cf. ↗s.v.
► BP#195ʔakbarᵘ, pl. ‑ūn, ʔakābirᵘ, f. kubrà, pl. kubrayāt, adj., greater, bigger, larger; older; senior-ranking: elat. | ~ sinnan, adj., older, more advanced in years; al-duwal al-kubrà, n.pl., the Big Powers; al-muftī al-~, n., grand mufti; ʔakābir al-qawm, n.pl., the leaders of the people; al-ʔakābir wa’l-ʔaʕyān, n.pl., the grandees and notables; al-ʔakābir wa’l-kubrayāt, n.pl., seniors (male and female), adult age class (sport; Tun.); ibn ʔakābir, f. bint ʔakābir, n., s.o. from a respected family.
► takbīr, n., 1 enlargement, increase, augmentation, magnification; enhancement, aggrandizement; intensification, amplification; exaggeration; 2 augmentative (gram.); 3 praise, laudation, extolment, exaltation, glorification; 4 the exclamation allāhu ʔakbar : vn. II.
► mukābaraẗ, n.f., 1 haughtiness, superciliousness, overweening, overbearingness; self-importance, pomposity; 2 stubbornness, obstinacy, self-will: vn. III.
► ʔikbār, n., admiration; deference, respect, regard, esteem: vn. IV.
► takabbur and takābur, n., pride, haughtiness, presumption, arrogance: vn. V.
► mukabbir, pl. ‑āt, n., amplifier (el.): nominalized PA II. | ~ al-ṣawt or ~ ṣawtī, n., loud-speaker (radio); megaphone; naẓẓāraẗ ~aẗ, n.f., magnifying glass.
► mukabbiraẗ, pl. ‑āt, n.f., magnifying glass: nominalized PA II f., short for naẓẓāraẗ ~aẗ.
► mukabbar, adj., enlarged, magnified: PP II. | ṣūraẗ ~aẗ, n.f., enlargement, blowup (phot.); bi-ṣūraẗ ~aẗ, adv., increasingly, on a larger scale, to an increasing degree.
► mukābir, adj., 1 presumptuous, arrogant, supercilious, haughty, overweening; 2 quarrelsome, contentious, cantankerous; 3 self-willed, obstinate, stubborn; stickler: PA III.
► mutakabbir, adj., proud, imperious, high-handed, haughty, supercilious, overweening: PA V. For other items of the root cf. ↗KBR, ↗kabar, ↗kūbrī, ↗kabārēh, ↗kabūriyā.