▪ Ints. formation on the
FaʕʕāL pattern, from
ǧabara ‘to force, compel’ (see ↗¹
ǧabr ‘strength, power;
†man’), from protSem *
gbr ‘to be strong’ (Kogan2011) / protCSem *
gabr- ‘man / (
DRS:) homme fait, dans toute sa force’. According to Palache1959: 18, the basic meaning of the root in Sem is *‘to rise, raise o.s.;
hence [!]
also: strength; to restore; to compel, overpower > man’. Cf., however, Ehret1995#262, according to whom Ar
ǧabbār represents an extension in an adj. suffix *-R from a bi-consonantal “pre-Proto-Semitic” root *√GB ‘great’
1
< AfrAs *
gâb- ‘great (esp. in size and number)’.
2
▪ [v3] : »For
Orion, the translators introduced
al-djabbār, “the Giant”, perhaps adopting an older Syr designation,
gabbārā.«
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