¹qulb فُلْب , var. qalb, qilb
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√QLB
englpalm pith, palm core (edible tuber growing at the upper end of the palm trunk) – WehrCowan1979.
concProbably related to ↗
qalb ‘heart’.
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▪ For cognates from QRB ‘to be(come) near, close’, which is perhaps related, cf. ↗
qaruba.
1. Cf., e.g., CAD where the meaning of Akk qablu is not only ‘middle, center, middle part; hips, loins, waist’ (corresponding Ar qalb ‘heart’), but also ‘trunk (of a date palm)’.
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