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to go; to betake o.s., travel; to go away, leave, depart; to disappear, vanish, decline, dwindle; to perish, die, be destroyed; with bi‑ : to carry s.th. off, take s.th. away, abduct, steal s.th., sweep s.th. or s.o. away, annihilate, destroy s.th. or s.o.; ḏ. bihī ʔilā to lead or conduct s.o. to, take s.o. along to; to think, believe, hold the view, be of the opinion (ʔilà that); to escape (ʕan s.o.; fig.), slip (ʕan s.o.’s mind), ḏ. ʕanhu ʔanna to lose sight of the fact that…, forget that …; to ignore, skip, omit (ʕan s.th.); (with imperf.) to prepare to …, be about to… | ḏ. wa-ǧāʔa to go back and forth, walk up and down; ḏ. ʔilà ʔabʕada min… to go beyond… (fig.); mā yaḏhabu fī nazʕatih what follows along these lines; ʔayna yuḏhabu bika! the idea of it! you can’t mean it! ḏ. sudàn to be futile, be in vain, be of no avail; ḏ. ʔadrāǧa ‘l-riyāḥ to go the ways of the winds, i.e., to pass unnoticed, without leaving a trace; to end in smoke, come to nothing, be futile, be in vain; ḏ. ka-ʔamsi ‘l-dābir to vanish into thin air, disappear without leaving a trace (lit.: like yesterday gone by; ḏ. bi-bahāʔih to take the glamor away from s.th.; ḏ. bi-nafsihi to kill s.o. (joy, terror, etc.); ḏ. bi-ḫayālih to let one’s imagination wander; ḏ. maḏhabahū to embrace s.o.’s maḏhab (see below); to follow s.o.’s teaching, make s.o.’s belief one’s own, embrace s.o.’s ideas; to adopt s.o.’s policy, proceed exactly like s.o.; ḏ. kulla maḏhabin to do everything conceivable, leave no stone unturned, go to greatest lengths – WehrCowan1979.

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▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#2672 reconstruct AfrAs *ǯ˅hab‑ ‘to go, trot’ as the ancestor of Sem *ḏ˅hab‑ ‘to go away’ and WCh *ǯ˅H˅b‑ ‘to trot’. But reconstructions are based on evidence in one language only in each case.

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▪ DRS 4 (1993)#ḎHB-2: no cognates in Sem.
▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#2672: no cognates in Sem. -- Outside Sem: WCh *ǯ˅H˅b‑ (ǯōp) ‘trot’.

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► ʔaḏhaba, vb. IV, to cause to go away, make disappear, remove, eliminate; to take away: caus.
► tamaḏhaba, vb. II, to follow, adopt, embrace (<~a teaching, a religion, etc.): denom. from maḏhab.

► ^BP#1594ḏahāb, n., going; passing, passage, falling away, decrease, dwindling, loss, disappearance; leave, departure; trip, journey; outward-bound trip or journey (as opposed to ʔiyāb return trip; railroad); opinion, view (ʔilà ʔan that): vn. I | ḏ-an ʔiyāban there and back; back and forth, up and down; taḏkaraẗ ḏ. wa-ʔiyāb round-trip ticket.
► ḏuhūb, n., going: vn. I | ḏ. wa-maʔāb coming and going; fī ǧīʔaẗ wa-ḏ. coming and going, in a state of fluctuation, having its ups and downs.
► ^BP#2488maḏhab, pl. maḏāhibᵘ, n., going, leave, departure; way out, escape; manner followed, adopted procedura or policy, road entered upon; opinion, view, belief; ideology; teaching, doctrine; movement, orientation, trend (also pol.); school; mazhab, orthodox rite of fiqh (Isl. Law); religious creed, faith, denomination: vn. I | m-uhū fī ‘l-ḥayāẗ his philosophy of life, his Weltanschauung; al-m. al-tārīḫī historism; m. al-rūḥiyyaẗ spiritualism; al-m. al-riwāqī stoicism; al-m. al-sulūkī behaviourism; al-m. al-ʔiṣlāḥī reformism; al-m. al-ṭabīʕī naturalism; al-m. al-ʕaqāʔidī dogmatism; m. al-laḏḏaẗ hedonism; m. al-miṯāliyyaẗ idealism; al-m. al-māddī the materialistic ideology, materialism; al-m. al-wāqiʕī realism; ḏahaba m-an baʕīdan to go very far, be very extensive.
► ^BP#4026maḏhabī, adj., denominational, confessional; doctrinaire; following or representing a particular doctrine; sectarian: nsb-adj from maḏhab.
► maḏhabiyyaẗ, n.f., doctrinaire attitude, devotion to an ideology; sectarianism: n.abstr. in ‑iyyaẗ from maḏhab.
► ḏāhib: ḏ. al-lawn, adj., faded, colorless, discolored: PA I.
► maḏhūb bihī and maḏhūb al-ʕaql, adj., out of one’s mind, demented: PP I.

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