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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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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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kalb كَلْب , pl. kilāb 
ID 765 • Sw 21/30 • BP 1267 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√KLB 
n. 
dog – WehrCowan1979. 
▪ Kogan2015 (Sw#18): from protSem *kalb‑ ‘dog’ (SED II #115). Passim except SEthSem.
▪ Was the animal eponymous for the disease (rabies), or vice versa? ↗√KLB
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▪ Bergsträsser1928: Akk kalbu, Hbr kéleḇ, Aram kalb.ā, Gz ‎‎kalb ‘dog’.
▪ 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’. 
▪ Diakonoff1998 thinks the word may be segmented into a root *kal‑ plus AfrAs »key ‎consonant« *‑b for strong and/or dangerous animals, cf. also ↗ʔarnab, dubb, ḏiʔb, ḏubāb, labb, ʕaqrab, ṯaʕlab
▪ See also √KLB for kalab ‘rabies’.
▪ Outside Sem, kalb may be akin to biconsonantal themes like *KL, *KR, or*KN, in Cush and/or Chad, cf. Orel&Stolbova 1994 s.v. ‘dog’ in the index. – »Vicichl Delc 79 cite le copte kalōpou ‘petit chien’, qu’il estime probablement sémitique. – L’histoire de ce nom qui, au moins dans une certaine mesure, doit recouvrir, celle de l’animal lui-même, si anciennement domestiqué, est certes complexe, et les rapprochements opérés ne peuvent prendre sens qu’avec d’autres études […]. Il n’en reste pas moins qu’il semble difficile de passer sous silence la forme indo-européenne représentée en latin par canes, canis et en Grk kyṓn, et dont la structure pose quelques problèmes«. 
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► al-kalb al-ʔakbar the constellation Canis Major with its main star Sirius:.
► ‎al-kalb ‎al-ʔaṣġar the constellation Canis Minor with its main star Procyon:.
► kalb al-baḥr shark:.
► kalb al-māʔ otter; beaver:.

► kalbaẗ, pl. ‑āt, n., bitch: f. of kalb.
► kalbī, adj., canine: nsb-adj.

► kullāb, var. kallāb, pl. kalālībᵘ, n., hook; cramp: figurative (like a dog’s mouth)? Rolland2014a thinks the word is probably a loan from Pers kalab ‘bec (d’oiseau)’.
► kullābaẗ, var. kallābaẗ, pl. ‑āt, n., (pair of) pincers, tongs, forceps: f. of kullāb /kallāb and thus figurative from kalb ? Or from Pers kalab ‘bec (d’oiseau)’ (as Rolland2014a thinks likely)? 

kalab كَلَب 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√KLB 
n. 
rabies, hydrophobia; burning thirst; greed – WehrCowan1979. 
Ultimately from ‘dog’? Cf. ↗kalb and ↗√KLB. 
▪ … 
▪ Cf. ↗kalb ? 
Ultimately from ‘dog’? Cf. ↗kalb and ↗√KLB. 
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► kaliba, a (kalab), vb. I, to be seized by hydrophobia; to become mad, crazy; to covet greedily: denominative?
► kallaba, vb. II, to stir up, rouse (s.o. against s.th.): ultimately from kalb ? If so, the animal was eponymous for the disease it used to be infected with and therefore was identified with.
► takālaba, vb. VI, to rage, rave, storm; to fall, pounce, rush in, assail (s.o.); to assail each other, rush against each other:.
► ĭstaklaba, vb. X, to be raging, raving, rabid, furious, mad, frenzied, possessed.
► kalib, adj., affected with rabies, rabid; mad; greedy
► kalīb, pl. kalbā, adj., affected with rabies, rabid, raging: quasi-PP I.
► taklīb, n., agitation, incitement: vn. II.
► takālub, n., 1 fierce struggle, dogfight, free-for-all, melee, brawl; 2 avidity, greed: vn. VI.
► maklūb, adj., rabid, frenzied, crazed, possessed: PP I. 
kullāb كُلّاب , var. kallāb , pl. kalālībᵘ 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√KLB 
n. 
hook; cramp – WehrCowan1979. 
Figurative from ↗kalb ‘dog’ (*like a dog’s mouth)? 
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▪ DRS 10 (2012)#KLB-4: Ar kalaba ‘éperonner’, kullāb ‘harpon, grappin, aiguillon, éperon, serre’, YemAr maklab ‘dard d’insecte’. – Note that this item is listed separately from other values of ↗KLB.
▪ But it may depend on ↗kalb ‘dog’. 
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► kullābaẗ, var. kallābaẗ, pl. ‑āt, n., (pair of) pincers, tongs, forceps: f. of kullāb and thus figurative from ↗kalb ‘dog’? 
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