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▪ DRS 9 (2010)#ḤZB-5 Ar ḥizbāʔ ‘terrain raboteux’; ḥazābⁱⁿ ‘épais, rude, courtaud, massif’, ḥayzabūn ‘vieille femme (rusée, mauvaise)’.
▪ Cf. perhaps also DRS 9 (2010)#ḤZB-1 Ar ḥazaba ‘advenir, survenir, atteindre qn. soudainement’, ḥazb ‘difficultés’; ? Mhr ḥəzūb ‘être vigilant, prêt à agir’.

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▪ Etymology obscure.
▪ DRS 9 (2010) suggests to put ḥayzabūn together with other items, now obsolete, like ^†ḥizbāʔ ‘rocky hill, rugged ground’ (ḤZB_4 in ↗ḤZB), ^†ḥazābⁱⁿ ‘thick, coarse, rude, bulky and short’ (ḤZB_5), and ^†ḥinzāb ‘dto. (as ^†ḥazābⁱⁿ); wild carrot; cock’. The common denominator here would be the coarseness, rudeness, compactness. The authors of DRS also mention the possibility that this complex “perhaps” should can be connected with ↗ḥazaba ‘to befall, happen, occur’ (ḤZB_1 in ↗ḤZB), »comme les aspérités et surprises de la vie et du chemin« (like the unevenness and asperity of a path or the surprises of life).

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For other items of the root cf. ↗ḥazaba, ↗ḥizb and (for the general picture) ↗ḤZB.

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