▪ QBL_1 ‘…’ ↗… ▪ QBL_2 ‘…’ ↗…♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘facade, face of a mountain, front; encounter, to face; opposite; openly; to come, approach; before; to accept, to receive; direction; midwife; to consent, willingness; to be pleasing; to compare; to kiss, kiss; section, type, sort, group, tribe; squint; power, capacity; surety, guarantor; spontaneous; possibility’
▪ From protSem *qabl‑ ‘front’, whence WSem denom. vb. qbl ‘to receive’ – Huehnergard2011. …
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▪ Engl Kabyle ↗qabīlaẗ; qiblah ↗qiblaẗ. – gabelle ↗qabila. ▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl cabal, kabbalah, from Hbr qabbālâ ‘received doctrine, tradition’, from qibbēl ‘to receive’, akin to Ar ↗qabila.
▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl qiblah, from Ar qiblaẗ ‘the direction of the Kaaba, toward which Muslims face when praying’, from qabila, vb. I, ‘to receive’ (cf. also the prob. denom. L-stem qābala ‘to face’).