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door; gate; opening, gateway; entrance; chapter, ‎section, column, rubric; group, class, category; field, domain (fig.) | al-b. al-ʕālī the ‎Sublime Porte; ‏‎ʕalā ‘l-ʔabwāb near, imminent; … – WehrCowan1979.

conc

▪ From Akk bābu (protSem *√BWB) ‘gate, doorway’ – Huehnergard2011.
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hist

▪ eC7 Occurs ‎some twenty-seven times in the Qurʔān, e.g. ii, 55; iv, 153.

cogn

▪ DRS 2 (1994) #BWB: Akk bāb ‘porte’, bābtu ‘quartier’; EmpAram Palm bb(ʔ), Mnd baba, Syr bābā, ‘porte’; JP bābā ‘entrée, chapitre’; Ar bāb, Śḥr ōb (pl. bubét), Tña bab ‘grande porte’; Te bab ‘porte’.
▪ Outside Sem, Borg2021 #58 (b-w-b) compares Eg bꜢbꜢ(w) (Pyr)/bbt (BD) ‘hole, cave’; ‘Loch, Höhlung’ (Ember 1930: 43; Calice 1936: 60; Faulkner 1962: 43, 82; Wb II 419), Copt ⲃⲏⲃ ‘cave’ (Crum 1939: 28).
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disc

▪ Jeffery1938: 74: »Fraenkel, ‎‎Fremdw, 14, noted that it was an early loan word, and suggested that it came from the Aram bāḇâ ‏which is in very common use in the Rabbinic writings. D. H. Müller, however (WZKM, i, 23), on ‎the ground that bābā occurs very rarely in Syr and that the root is entirely lacking in Hbr, Eth, ‎and Sab, suggested that it was an early borrowing from Mesopotamia (cf. Zimmern, Akkad. ‎Fremdw, 30), and may have come directly into Ar. It occurs commonly in the old poetry, ‎which confirms the theory of early borrowing, and it is noteworthy that from some Mesopotamian ‎source it passed into mPers (Frahang, Glossary, p. 103; Herzfeld, Paikuli, Glossary, ‎‎151).«

▪ Schall1982, Retsö2006 (EALL, “Aramaic/Syriac ‎Loanwords"): via Aram bāḇā from Akk bāb-um ‘gate’

west

▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl Bab, Babism, from Ar bāb ‘gate’, from Aram bābā, from Akk bābu ‘dto.’. – Babylon, from Akk bāb-ili ‘Babylon’, lit. ‘gate of the god’ (prob. a folk etymology of a pre-Akk place name), from bāb, bound form of bābu ‘gate’ (ili, genitive of ilu ‘god’, akin to Ar ↗ʔilāh, ↗allāh).

deriv

► bawwaba, vb. II, to divide into chapters or ‎sections; to arrange in groups, arrange systematically, class, classify: ‎denominative, from bāb in the sense of ‘chapter, category’, etc.
► ‏‎bābaẗ, n.f., pl. ‑āt kind, sort, ‎class, category: ►

► bawwāb, n., pl. ‑ūn doorman, gatekeeper: n.prof., denominative
► biwābaẗ, n.f., office of ‎gatekeeper: ►

► [BP #2435] bawwābaẗ, n.f., pl. ‑āt (large) gate, portal: ►

► tabwīb ‎n., division into chapters, sectioning, classification, systematic arrangement, grouping: vn. II, denominative.
► mubawwab, adj., arranged in groups, classed, classified: PP II, from bawwaba

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