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▪ vn. of ĭʕtaṣaba, vb. VIII, ʻto form a league, clique, group, team, gang, or coalition, gang up, team up; (hence also:) to go on strike, to strike’, Gt-stem, self-referential, either from the vb. I, ʕaṣaba ʻto wind, tie, bind, bandage, fold, [etc.]’, or directly from a n. akin to it (e.g., ʕaṣabaẗ, ʕuṣbaẗ, ʕiṣāb, or ʕiṣābaẗ – see below, section DERIV).¹
▪ ʻStrike’ being in itself a modern concept that first emerged in Europe, Ar words for it seem to be calques. According to Beinin and Lockman 1998, »early accounts used the term ĭʕtiṣāb, from a root connoting tying or wrapping, and by extension, banding together: the workers had formed a cohesive group and stopped work. Only in the 1920s did ʔiḍrāb, the standard term today and intrinsically closer to our own ʻstrike,’ come into general use.«² ³
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1. BK1860 mentions as one of the meanings of ĭʕtaṣaba in ClassAr ʻse réunir et former une troupe, ʕuṣbaẗ. 2. Joel Beinin and Zachary Lockman, Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954, Cairo: AUC Press, 1998: 55. – Thanks to Neil Ketchley, Oslo, for alerting us to this reference. 3. Monteil1960: 169 notes that Wehr1934 classified ʔiḍrāb among »ʻles inventions autonomes’ (c’est-à-dire : sans influence étrangère). […] ʔiḍrāb ʻgrève’ (de ʔaḍraba ʻse détourner de’.« Later in his study Monteil mentions ʔiḍrāb among the »mots-clefs« of the modern period – ibid., 214.

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▪ ↗ʕaṣaba.
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▪ See above, section CONC.
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The following items are not derived from ĭʕtiṣāb but may rather be words on which ĭʕtiṣāb itself is dependent:

► ʕaṣabaẗ, pl. ‑āt, and ʕuṣbaẗ, pl. ʕuṣab, n.f., 1a union, league, federation, association; b group, troop, band, gang, clique; 2 ʕaṣabaẗ, paternal relations, relationship, agnates | ʕuṣbaẗ al‑ʔumam, n.f., the League of Nations. – In Hava1899, ʕuṣbaẗ ʻfaction, gang’ is marked with the sign for SyrAr dialect.
► ʕiṣāb, n., band, ligature, dressing, bandage.
► ʕiṣābaẗ, pl. ʕaṣāʔibᵘ, n.f., 1a band, ligature, dressing, bandage; b headcloth, headband, fillet; c brow band, frontlet; – 2a (pl. ‑āt) union, league, federation, association; b group, troop, band, gang | ʕiṣābāt al-ḫaṭf, n.non-hum.pl., bands of robbers; ḥarb al‑ʕiṣābāt, n.f., guerrilla warfare.

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

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