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1 n., a giant; colossus; b tyrant, oppressor; 2 adj., a almighty, omnipotent (God); b gigantic, giant, colossal, huge; 3 Orion (astron.) – WehrCowan1976

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▪ Ints. formation on the FaʕʕāL pattern, from ǧabara ‘to force, compel’ (see ↗¹ǧabr ‘strength, power; ^†man’), from protSem *gbr ‘to be strong’ (Kogan2011) / protCSem *gabr- ‘man / (DRS:) homme fait, dans toute sa force’. According to Palache1959: 18, the basic meaning of the root in Sem is *‘to rise, raise o.s.; hence [!] also: strength; to restore; to compel, overpower > man’. Cf., however, Ehret1995#262, according to whom Ar ǧabbār represents an extension in an adj. suffix *-R from a bi-consonantal “pre-Proto-Semitic” root *√GB ‘great’¹ < AfrAs *gâb- ‘great (esp. in size and number)’.²
▪ [v3] : »For Orion, the translators introduced al-djabbār, “the Giant”, perhaps adopting an older Syr designation, gabbārā.«³
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1. Perh. rather *‘to assemble, amass, bring together, pile up’. 2. For other extensions from the same pre-protSem root, cf. ↗√ǦBǦ (ǧabǧ ‘to recover and regain strength’) and ↗√ǦBL (ǧabl ‘numerous’). 3. W. Hartner & P. Kunitzsch, art. »Minṭaḳat al-Burūdj«, in EI².

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cogn

▪ ↗ǧabr
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disc

▪ See above, section CONC.
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deriv

NB: Below only items of most direct / immediate relation are listed (no derivations in the proper sense). For other values, ultimately prob. all related, cf. ↗ǧabara, ↗ǧābara, ↗¹ǧabr, ↗ǧibriyāʔᵘ, and ↗Ǧibrīlᵘ as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√ǦBR.

►ǧabbār al-ḫuṭwaẗ, striding powerfully, taking huge strides

►taǧabbara, vb. V, 1a to show o.s. proud, haughty; b to act strong, throw one’s weight around; c to show o.s. strong or powerful, demonstrate one’s strength or power; 2 ↗ǧabara: tD-stem, self-ref. | taǧabbara ’ḷḷāhu bi-’bni-ka, God has demonstrated His power on your son, i.e., He has taken him unto Himself
►ǧabarūt, n.f., 1a omnipotence; b power, might; 2 tyranny
►ǧibriyāʔᵘ, n., pride, haughtiness: see also ↗s.v.

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