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▪ ʔDB_1 ‘culture, refinement; ‎good breeding, good manners; etiquette; literature’ (etc.) ↗ʔadab
▪ ʔDB_2 ‘to invite, entertain; party, banquet’ ↗ʔadaba
▪ ʔDB_3 ‘…’ ↗…

conc

While Muslim lexicographers make ʔDB_1 depend on ʔDB_2, saying the concept of good manners and politeness etc. evolved from the culture of inviting to parties and hosting guests (cf. also grouping in DRS), the current opinion in Western research is that ↗ʔadab is not connected to ↗ʔadaba. But opinions differ.

hist

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cogn

▪ According to DRS 1 (1994)#ʔDB the situation in Sem is as follows: –1 Ar ʔadaba ‘inviter à un festin’; ʔadab ‘savoir-vivre, belles manières, coutume, pratique’; Soq ʔdb ‘inviter’; Te ʔadab ‘habitude, caractère, genre’; ?Amh aǧǧäbä ‘faire escorte à qu. pour le rendre honneur’. –2 Hbr ʔªdīb ‘faire languir, faire dépérir’. –3 Soq ʔidbeh ‘pied de devant’.
▪ According to others, however, items listed as ʔDB-1 by DRS do not belong together. See discussion.

disc

▪ Like ClassAr lexicographers, DRS sees ʔDB_1 and ʔDB_2 as being one item.
▪ However, opinions differ on this view. See ↗ʔadab and ↗ʔadaba.
▪ The other values, listed in DRS, that the root displays in Sem, do not seem to be relevant for the discussion.

west

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deriv

See ↗ʔadab and ↗ʔadaba.

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