disc▪ Jeffery1938: »The root is common Sem, cf. Akk kabāru ‘to become great’, Hbr hikbîr ‘to make many’, Aram kᵊḇar, Syr kᵊḇar, Eth [Gz] kabəra ‘to honour’, and cf. Sab kbr ‘large; prince’ (Hommel, Südarab. Chrest, 127; Rossini, Glossarium, 167). – The usual theory is that the Qurʔānic word is a development from the Ar kabura ‘to become great, magnificent’, but as it was in Eth [Gz] that the root developed prominently the meaning of ‘gloriosum, illustrum esse’, we may perhaps see in the Eth [Gz] kəbər, commonly used as meaning ‘gloria, honor’ (= [Grk] dóxa) and then ‘magnificentia, splendor’ (Dillmann, Lex, 846), the source of the word (cf. Ahrens, Christliches, 23; Muḥammad, 78).«