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qalb قَلْب , pl. qulūb
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ID 703 • Sw 52/70 • BP 110 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
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heart; middle, centre; core, gist, essence; marrow, medulla, pith; the best or choicest part; mind, soul, spirit – WehrCowan1979.
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▪ Etymology unclear. On account of the Akk evidence, a reconstruction of protSem *ḳalb‑ / *ḳabl‑ is not impossible, but litte reliable (based only on Akk and Ar, with metathetical forms).
▪ Sivkov2014 relates also the complex ‘to come near, approach’ treated under ↗qariba / qaruba, saying that it may be derived from ‘heart, inner part, middle’.
▪ Sivkov2014 also considers the possibility of the complex ‘to turn’ to be denominative from ‘heart’, cf. ↗qalaba.
▪ Kogan2011: The fact that qalb is the basic term for ‘heart’ in Ar is a deviation from the general picture in Sem where most other langs use reflexes of protSem *libb‑ ‘heart’ (preserved also in Ar, cf. ↗lubb).
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▪ Zammit2002: Akk qablu ‘hip; waist’,1 Ar qalb ‘heart’ (> Gz qalb ‘thought, wish’)
▪ Cf. also ↗qulb_1 ‘palm pith, palm core (edible tuber growing at the upper end of the palm trunk)’.
▪ For cognates from QRB ‘to be(come) near, close’, which is perhaps related, cf. ↗qaruba.
1. CAD: ‘middle, center, middle part; hips, loins, waist; trunk (of a date palm)’.
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► qalb al-ʔasad, n., Regulus (star α in the constellation Leo; astron.).
► qalb al-huǧūm, n., center forward (soccer).
► suwaydāʔ al-qalb, n., the innermost of the heart, the bottom of the heart.
► ʕan ẓahri ’l-qalb, adv., by heart.
► qalban wa-qālaban, adv., with heart and soul; inwardly and outwardly.
► qulūbāt (al-sukkar), n.pl., small candies, lozenges.

 ► qulb, qalb, qilb, n., palm pith, palm core (edible tuber growing at the upper end of the palm trunk): belonging to qalb, or to ↗qalab‑ ‘to turn’, or an item in its own right?
► qalbī, adj., of or pertaining to the heart, heart (in compounds), cardiac, cardiacal; cordial, hearty, warm, sincere; qalbiyan, adv., cordially, heartily, warmly, sincerely: nsb-adj.
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