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▪ Jeffery1938: »The philologers would derive the word from tabaʕa ‘to follow’, and explain the title as meaning that each king followed his predecessor, cf, Bagh. on xliv, 36. / Fraenkel, Vocab, 25, connected it with the Eth [Gz] tabʕa ‘strong, manly’, and Nöldeke in Lidzbarski’s Ephemeris, ii, 124, supports the connection. The word itself, however, is clearly SAr, and occurs in the inscriptions in the compound names tbʕ-ʔl, ʔlh-tbʕ, tbʕ-krb, etc. Hartmann in ZA, xiv, 331-7, would explain it from √BTʕ = Hbr √BṮʕ, but this seems very unlikely.¹ , and everything is in favour of the other derivation. The word was apparently well known in pre-Islamic Arabia, for it occurs not infrequently in the old poetry.² .«

1. Lidzbarski, Ephemeris, i, 224, says: ‘Ich halte diese Erklärung für möglich, nicht wie Hartmann und Mordmann für gesichert.’ See also, Glaser, Altjemenische Studien, i, 3; Rossini, Glossarium, 256; Ryckmans, Noms propres, i, 319. 2. See Horovitz, KU, 102, 103.

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TǦR تجر

√TǦR

“root”

▪ TǦR_1 ‘trade, commerce; to trade, deal, do business; tradesman, merchant; merchandise’ ↗tiǧāraẗ
▪ TǦR_2 ‘…’ ↗…

BAH2008: ‘wine merchant, wine seller; to barter, buy or sell; to trade, exchange; (of a camel) to be saleable’

▪ TǦR_1: It seems clear that the root goes back, via Aram, to Akk tamkāru ‘merchant, trader, money-lender’, a deriv. of makāru ‘to do business, use (silver etc.) in business transactions’. However, previous research differs on what should be considered the basis of derivation for all other items of the root—tāǧir ‘merchant’ or tiǧāraẗ ‘commerce, trade’. For phonetic reasons, we follow Jeffery1938 in favouring the latter.

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↗tiǧāraẗ

↗tiǧāraẗ, ↗tāǧir

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