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ears (of cereals) – WehrCowan1979.
▪ Given that the cultivation of cerials was not very common among pre-Islamic Arabs (while an old practice in the Fertile Crescent), the word sunbulaẗ is quite likely to be a borrowing, probably from Aram (as already suggested by Jeffery and recently confirmed by Pennacchio). In Sem outside Ar, there are forms showing ‑n‑ as well as others that don’t, as in Ar sabal. Kogan2011 therefore reconstructs protSem *šu(n)bul‑at‑ ‘ear of corn’.
▪ Cf. also ↗sunbulaẗ.
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► ʔasbala, vb. IV, 1a to let (s.th.) hang down; 1b to let fall, drop (curtain, drape, etc., ʕalà over); 1c to close, shut (the eyes); 1d to shed (tears); 2 to ear, form ears: denom. ► sabalaẗ, pl. sibāl, n.f., mustache: n.un., fig. use (?)
► masbūl, adj., lowered, down: PP I (curtain)
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