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Etymologically related to ↗kabīr etc., but itself (according to Jeffery1938) perhaps a loan from Gz kəbər ‘gloria, honor; magnificentia, splendor’.

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▪ eC7 (pride, greatness, glory) Q 45:37 wa-la-hu ’l-kibriyāʔu fī ’l-samawāti wa’l-ʔarḍi ‘true pride in the heavens an the earth is His’

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Cf. DISC and ↗kabīr

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▪ Jeffery1938: »The root is common Sem, cf. Akk kabāru ‘to become great’, Hbr hikbîr ‘to make many’, Aram kᵊḇar, Syr kᵊḇar, Eth [Gz] kabəra ‘to honour’, and cf. Sab kbr ‘large; prince’ (Hommel, Südarab. Chrest, 127; Rossini, Glossarium, 167). – The usual theory is that the Qurʔānic word is a development from the Ar kabura ‘to become great, magnificent’, but as it was in Eth [Gz] that the root developed prominently the meaning of ‘gloriosum, illustrum esse’, we may perhaps see in the Eth [Gz] kəbər, commonly used as meaning ‘gloria, honor’ (= [Grk] dóxa) and then ‘magnificentia, splendor’ (Dillmann, Lex, 846), the source of the word (cf. Ahrens, Christliches, 23; Muḥammad, 78).«

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For other items of the root cf. ↗KBR, ↗kabīr, ↗kabar, ↗kūbrī, ↗kabārēh, ↗kabūriyā.

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