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▪ DRS 2 (1994) #GBL-1-2 […]. -3 Ar ǧabal ‘montagne’, ǧubulaẗ ‘bosse’; SAr gblt ‘région montagneuse’; nSyr ǧabāl ‘montagne; forêt naturelle; lit de roseaux’. -?4 Hbr gᵊbūl, gᵊbūlā ‘frontière’, gōbel ‘lisière de champ’; Phoen gbl, Pun gubulim (?); oYaAram gbl ‘frontière’, ‘territoire’. -?5 Te gobal ‘côté’. -6-7 […].
▪ Zammit2002: Akk gablu ‘Hügel’, Ug gbl ‘Berg, Fels’, Hbr gᵊbūl ‘border, boundary, territory’, Phoen gbl ‘boundary; territory with boundary’, Aram gbwl ‘territory, border, district’, SAr gblt ‘(hill) country; territory, district; cultivated land (surrounding village or dwelling)’, Ar ǧabal ‘mountain’
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▪ Kogan2011 : There is no common Sem designation of ‘mountain’. Ar ǧabal is etymologically obscure (cf., however, Huehnergard2011: From CSem *√GBL, appearing in various n.s denoting ‘border,’ ‘frontier,’ ‘mountain’). At the same time, a few common terms for landscape elevations can be detected, e.g, protSem *k˅rm‑ ‘hill, mound’ > protCSem *karm- ‘vineyard’ > Ar karm.
▪ Kogan2015 426 n.1223 : The value ‘territory, border’ (oAram Hbr Phoen) has no obvious cognates outside Can, except perh. Sab gblt ‘cultivated land surrounding village or dwelling’. Comparison with Ar ǧabal ‘mountain’, widely accepted in Semitological literature, must remain hypothetical because of the semantic difference (cf. DRS where ‘mountain’ and ‘border’ are carefully separated). If it is nevertheless accepted, one cannot exclude an eventual connection with protWSem *gbl ‘to be massive, solid’.
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl javelina, from Ar (ḫinzīr) ǧabalī ‘mountain (swine)’, from ǧabal ‘mountain’.

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►ǧibāl al-ʔalb, n. pl., the Alps;
►ǧibāl al-ʔawrās, n. pl., the Awes Mountains (in E Algeria);
►ǧabal ǧalīd, n., iceberg;
►ǧabal Sīnā, n., Mount Sinai;
►ǧabal Ṭāriq, n., Gibraltar;
►ǧabal nār, n., volcano

►ǧabalī, 1 adj., a mountainous, hilly; b mountain (adj.); c montane; 2 n., pl. -ūn, highlander, mountaineer: nsb-formation
►EgAr ǧabalāwī, n., highlander, mountaineer: extended nsb-formation
►EgAr ǧabalāyaẗ, pl. -āt, n.f., grotto, cave

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗ǧabala as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√ǦBL.

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