ǧabhaẗ جَبْهة , pl. ǧibāh, ǧabahāt
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√ǦBH
1 forehead, brow; 2 front, face, façade; 3 frontline, battle front – WehrCowan1976
▪ SED I #68: From Sem *g˅bh(-at)- ‘forehead, front’.
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▪ (Hava1899:) ǧabaha, a (ǧabh), vb. I, 1 to strike s.o. on the forehead; 2 to take (people) unawares (winter); 3 to come to (water) without means for drawing it; 4 to receive harshly (bi‑ s.o.); ǧabbaha, vb. II, to lower (the head); ĭǧtabaha, vb. VIII, to dislike (water); ǧabah ‘broadness and beauty of the forehead’; ǧabhaẗ, n.f., 1 forehead; 2 chief (al-qawm of a tribe); 3 insult; 4 mansion of the moon; 5 ignominy; ʔaǧbahᵘ, f. ǧabhāʔᵘ, 1 adj., who has a broad and fine forehead; 2 n., lion
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▪ Zammit2002 : Hbr gōbah ‘height’, Aram gūbhā ‘height, elevation’, Ar ǧibāh ‘forehead’
▪ SED I #68 : (?) postBiblHbr gōbah ‘thick, fleshy part’ (?), Mhr gəbhēt ‘front’, Ḥrṣ yábheh ‘brow’ (y- < *g-), Jib gəbhɛ́t ‘front, brow’, Ar ǧabhaẗ ‘front (tant chez l’homme que chez animaux)’, ǧabah ‘front large, vaste et beau’, Te gəbbəhit ‘forehead’, gäbbah ‘broadfronted’
▪ Borg2021 #87 ǧ-b-h : Jib gǝbhέt ‘brow’ (Johnstone 1981: 69), Ar ǧabhaẗ ‘forehead’ (Hava 1982: 77). | Outside Sem, the author compares Eg (MK) gmḥt ‘forehead | Locke oder Flechte des Haares’ (Ember 1930: 80; Wb V 171).
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▪ SED I #68 : It is not clear whether this basis [of cognates] for reconstructing a comSem protoform is sufficient since borrowing of the Te and modSAr forms from Ar is possible, while the postBiblHbr term is semantically problematic. Sometimes compared to Hbr gbh ‘to be high’, gābōᵃh ‘high’, JudArma gbh ‘to be high, elated’, which is perhaps a folk etymology (see [DRS 95]).
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►ǧabaha, a, vb. I, to meet, face, confront: G-stem, prob. denom.
►ǧābaha, vb. III, 1 to face, confront, oppose, defy, show a bold front to; 2 to face (a problem, a difficulty): L-stem, assoc. ►muǧābahaẗ, n.f., facing, confrontation, opposition: vn. III
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