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▪ The Ar term has only few cognates in Sem. Militarev&Kogan2000’s tentative reconstruction, based on the scarce evidence: protSem *ʕa(n)ṣab‑ ~ *ʕa(n)c̣ab‑ ‘sinew, nerves’.
▪ It seems possible that, ultimately, the semantic complex based on ʻto bind, tie, wrap’ (↗ʕaṣaba) and, as its derivative (?), perh. also ʻharshness, difficulty, hardship’ (↗ʕaṣīb), are dependent on ↗ʕaṣab ʻnerves, sinew’ (as the material with which s.th. is bound together, or being associated with the idea of *contraction, tightening, becoming tense\dense’); see discussion in root entry ↗√ʕṢB.
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▪ Militarev&Kogan2000 (SED I) #16: Mhr ʔāṣbīt, Ḥrs ʔāṣebét ‘sinew, nerve’, Jib ʕaṣbɛ́t ‘dto.; condition of having headaches¹ ’, Ar ʕaṣab (coll.) ‘nerves’, Te ʕanṣäbät, ʔanṣäbät ‘sinew, (Munzinger: nerv, corde)’.
▪ For further cognates, cf., perh., ↗ʕaṣaba.
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1. »Looks like a late semantic development«.

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▪ See above, section CONC.
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► ʕaṣabī, adj., 1 sinewy, nerved, nervy; 2 nervous, neural, nerve‑, neuro‑, neur‑ (in compounds); 3 nervous, high-strung: nisba formation; see also ↗s.v. | ʕaṣabiyyu ’l-mazāǧ, adj., nervous, high-strung; al-ǧihāz al‑ʕaṣabī, n., the nervous system; ḥālaẗ ʕaṣabiyyaẗ, n.f., nervousness, nervosity; al-ḍuʕf al‑ʕaṣabī, n., neurasthenia
► ʕaṣabiyyaẗ, n.f., 1 nervousness, nervosity: abstract formation in ‑iyyaẗ, from of ʕaṣab ʻnerve’; – 2 ↗s.v.
► ʕaṣīb, adj., hot, crucial, critical (time, stage): related to ʕaṣab ʻnerve; sinew’, and\or to ↗ʕaṣaba ʻto bind, tie, wrap’, or to be treated separately? – Cf. ↗s.v.

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗ʕaṣaba, ↗ʕiṣābaẗ, ↗taʕaṣṣub, ↗ĭʕtiṣāb, as well as, for the general picture, ↗√ʕṢB.

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