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1 concealing, screening, protecting; 2a (pl. ḥuǧǧāb, var. ḥaǧabaẗ) a doorman, gatekeeper; b chamberlain; c orderly (Syr., mil.); 3 (pl. ḥawāǧibᵘ) eyebrow – WehrCowan1976.

conc

▪ PA I, from ↗ḥaǧaba ʻto veil, screen, separate, shelter, protect’. [v2] and [v3] are semantic extensions.
▪ Cf., however, below, section DISC, for a possible different etymology of ḥāǧib ʻeyebrow’ [v3].

hist

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cogn

▪ See ↗ḥaǧaba.
▪ For [v3], cf. also sections CONC and DISC.
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disc

▪ See above, section CONC.
▪ For [v3], Kogan2015:557 (#45) remarks that although in the Ar lexicographic tradition ḥāǧib in the sense of ʻeyebrow’ is thought to be derived from the verbal root ↗√ḤǦB ‘to protect’, one should wonder »whether this interpretation reflects a secondary rearrangement of a more original *ḥāǧil- via popular etymology« (fn.1457). The remark is motivated by the fact that the similarity between Ar ḥāǧib ‘eyebrow’ and Mhr ḥāgəl, Jib ḥágəl, Soq ḥágaḷ (< proto-modMSAr *ḥāgVl-) ‘eyebrow’ »can hardly be accidental« (fn.1456). »One may be tempted to connect [the latter] with the verbal root [protSem] *ḥgl ‘to encircle, surround,’ well attested both within and outside modSAr.«
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deriv

►ḥāǧib al-maḥkamaẗ, n., court usher
►ḥāǧib al-hawāʔ, n., airtight, hermetic.

For other values of the root, cf. ↗ḥaǧaba and ↗ḥiǧāb, as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√ḤǦB.

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