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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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kalaʔ كَلَأ , pl. ʔaklāʔ 
ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√KLʔ 
n. 
grass, herbage, pasture – WehrCowan1976. 
▪ Any relation to ↗kalaʔa ‘to hold back; to protect’?
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▪ DRS 10 (2012) #KLʔ/W/Y, KLL, KLKL-1 […] ↗kilā. -2 […] ↗kalaʔa. -3 Ar kalaʔ ‘pâturage’, Sab ʔklʔ (pl.) ‘pâturages’, klwt ‘champs en terrasses (?), mur de barrage (?)’.1 -4–5 […] (cf. ↗√KLʔ). 
See above, section CONC. 
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For other meanings of the root, cf. ↗kalaʔa and, for the general picture, ↗√KLʔ. 
KLB كلب 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√KLB 
“root” 
▪ KLB_1 ‘dog’ ↗kalb
▪ KLB_2 ‘rabies’ ↗kalab
▪ KLB_3 ‘hook; cramp’ ↗kullāb, var. kallāb

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘dog, any wild animal, to train animals and birds for hunting; to become fierce; rabies; to fight over; hanging hook; gluttony’ 
▪ KLB_1 : (Kogan2015 Sw#18:) from protSem *kalb‑ ‘dog’ (SED II #115). Passim except SEthSem.
▪ Both KLB_2 ‘rabies’ and KLB_3 ‘hook; cramp’ may depend on KLB_1 ‘dog’.
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▪ DRS 10 (2012)#KLB-1 Akk kalb‑ , Ug klb, Hbr keleb, Phn klb, Aram kalbā, Ar kalb, Sab klb ‘dog’, Śḥr kob ‘wolf’, ekob ‘dog’, Mhr kawb ‘wolf’, Soq kalb, Gz kalb, Te kälb, Tña kälbi ‘dog’. -2 […] -3 Hbr kᵉlūb, Aram kulbāšā, Gz karabō ‘corbeille’. – nHbr kᵉlūb ‘cage’, nSyr kwlb ‘cruche’, Ar †kulbaẗ ‘boutique de marchand de vin’. -4 Ar kalaba ‘éperonner’, kullāb ‘harpon, grappin, aiguillon, éperon, serre’, YemAr maklab ‘dard d’insecte’. -5 […].-6 […]. 
▪ Is kalb ‘dog’ derived from kalab ‘rabies’, or vice versa?
▪ kullāb, var. kallāb ‘hook; cramp’: figurative from kalb (*‘like a dog’s mouth’)?
▪ For †kulbaẗ cf. Grk klōbós [‘bird-cage’].
 
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