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▪ From protCSem *g˅bn-at- ‘cheese’ – Kogan2015. – Prob. lit. *‘shrinking substance, showing wrinkles, furrows’, from the basic idea of *‘shrinking together, forming a bumpy surface’, from a Sem *√GBN ‘to be curved, bowed, hunchback’ (SED I #67 Sem *gVb(V)b-, *gVb(b)-an- ‘hump, hunch’), itself prob. an extension in -N from the 2-rad. root nucleus ↗*ǦB- with the basic value ‘difference in altitude, elevation, level’ (see, however, below, section DISC).
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▪ DRS #GBN-1 Hbr gibbēn ‘bossu’, *gabnōn ‘sommet, crête (de montagne)’, JP gᵊbintā, Syr gibnā ‘bosse’, JP Syr gᵊbīn ‘bossu’, Mand gabnia ‘sommets’; Gz gʷəbən, gʷəbər ‘bossu’; ? Ar ǧabbān ‘terrain élevé de forme plate mais où on trouve des monticules’. -2 PhlvAram gbyn, JP Syr gᵊbīnā, Mand gbina, nSyr (aysor) gnīvä ‘sourcil’, Ar ǧabīn ‘côté du front, front, tempe’; Te gäbäna ‘front’. -3 Ar ǧabuna, ǧabana ‘être lâche, poltron’. -4 Akk gubnat-, Hbr gᵊbīnā; PhlvAram gbnth, JP gubnā, Syr gᵊbettā (pl. gubnē), nAram(W) gbečča, Ar ǧubn, ǧubun(n) , Gz g(ʷ)əbnat ‘fromage’; Syr gᵊban ‘contracter, coaguler’. -5 […].
▪ Kogan2015 207-8 #5 : Hbr gᵊbīnā ‘cheese’,¹ Syr gbettā (pl. gubne), Ar ǧubn
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1. Hapax legomenon in Job 10:10.

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▪ Kogan2015 207-8 #5: protCSem *g˅bn-at- ‘cheese’ is likely connected with the root *gbn ‘to be curved, bowed, hunchback’.¹ – Mhr gəbn and Jib gəbn are likely borrowed from Ar. – Akk (lBab) gubnatu is a transparent Aramaism (contra Abraham-Sokoloff2011: 33). – According to Leslau (CDG 177, 1990: 72), Gz gəbnat, gʷəbnat is borrowed from Ar ǧubn, but this question requires further study in view of several potentially early attestations listed in LLA 1168. The Ar origin is certain for modEthSem forms like Tña ǧəbäna.
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1. SED I #67, cf. CDG 178.

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►ǧabbana, vb. II, 1 to cause to curdle (milk); 2 to make into cheese (s.th.); 3 to curdle; 4 ↗¹ǧubn: D-stem, caus.
►taǧabbana, vb. V, to curdle (milk), turn into cheese: tD-stem, intr.

►ǧubūn, n., cheese: var. of ǧubn
►ǧabbān, n., cheese merchant: n.prof.
►taǧbīn, n., cheese making, processing into cheese: vn. II

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗¹ǧubn, ↗ǧabīn, and ↗ǧabbānaẗ as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√ǦBN.

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