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1a to veil, cover, screen, shelter, seclude (ʕalà s.th. from); 1b to hide, obscure (ʕan s.th. from s.th. else, e.g., from sight); c to eclipse, outshine, overshadow (s.o.); d to make imperceptible, invisible (ʕan s.th. to); e to conceal (ʕan s.th. from s.o.); 2 to make or form a separation (bayna … wa-bayna … between … and …) – WehrCowan1976.

conc

▪ From CSem *√ḤGB ‘to cover, conceal’ – Huehnergard2011.
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cogn

▪ DRS 9 (2010) #ḤGB-1 Palm ḥgbʔ, Syr ḥugbā ‘idole, sanctuaire’, ḥugbānā ‘gardien’, Ar ḥaǧaba ‘cacher, masquer, dérober aux regards’, ḥiǧāb ‘voile, rideau, portière, charme, talisman’, ? ḥāǧib ‘arcade sourcilière, sourcil’, ḥaǧabāni (dual): les deux crêtes iliaques. – Mhr ḥəgūb, Jib ḥɔ́gɔ́b ‘poser les bases, l’armature d’une construction’; Mhr ḥəgūb ‘veiller aux intérêts de qn’; Jib ḥɔ́tgəb ‘être assis en tailleur, les genoux retenus par un tissu noué’. -2-4 […].
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▪ See above, section CONC.
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west

▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl hijab ↗ḥiǧāb.

deriv

►ḥaǧǧaba, vb. II, 1a to veil, hide, conceal; b to hide from sight, keep in seclusion (‑hā a woman); c to disguise, mask (bi‑ s.th. with): D-stem, partly ints. formation, partly perh. dependent on ḥiǧāb.
►taḥaǧǧaba, vb. V, to conceal o.s., hide (ʕan from), flee from sight, veil o.s.: Dt-stem, refl. of II.
►ĭnḥaǧaba, vb. VII, 1 to veil o.s., conceal o.s.; 2 to be covered up, become hidden, be obscured: N-stem, refl.-pass.
►ĭḥtaǧaba, vb. VIII, 1 to vanish, become invisible, disappear from sight; 2 to veil o.s., conceal o.s., hide; 3 to become hidden, be concealed (ʕan from); 4 to withdraw; 5 to elude perception; 6 to cease or interrupt publication (newspaper, periodical): Gt-stem, self-ref.

►^BP#4843ḥaǧb, n., 1 seclusion; 2 screening off; 3 keeping away, keeping off: vn. I.
►^BP#2373ḥiǧāb, pl. ḥuǧub, var. ʔaḥǧibaẗ, n., 1 cover, wrap, drape; 2 curtain; 3 woman’s veil; 4 screen, partition, folding screen; 5 barrier, bar; 6 diaphragm (also al-ḥiǧāb al-ḥāǧiz, n. (anat.)); 7 amulet
►ḥiǧābaẗ, n.f., office of gatekeeper: from ḥāǧib in value [v2]
►ĭḥtiǧāb, n., 1 concealment, hiddenness, seclusion; 2 veiledness, veiling, purdah: vn VIII.
►ḥāǧib, n., 1 concealing, screening, protecting; 2 (pl. ḥuǧǧāb, var. ḥaǧabaẗ) a doorman, gatekeeper; b chamberlain; c orderly (Syr., mil.) | ~ al-maḥkamaẗ, n., court usher; ~ al-hawāʔ, n., airtight, hermetic; – 3 (pl. ḥawāǧibᵘ) eyebrow: PA I and semantic extensions; but [v3] may have a different etymology, see s.v., ↗ ḥāǧib | ~ al-maḥkamaẗ, n., court usher; ~ al-hawāʔ, n., airtight, hermetic
► maḥǧūb, adj., concealed, hidden, veiled: PP I.
►muḥaǧǧab, adj., veiled, wearing a ḥiǧāb: PP II, denom. from ḥiǧāb.

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