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▪ DRS 10 (2012)#K/GB/PRT: Akk kibrīt-, kubrīt-, JP kubrētā, Syr kibrītā, Ar kibrīt, Soq kibrīt, Mhr kebrīt, Śḥr kirit, Hbr goprīt, Syr guprētā, Mand gubrutai, Gz kabarīt (forme de pl.) ‘soufre’.

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▪ Zimmern1914: 60: Akk kuprītu ‘sulphur’ prob. gave Hbr goprît and Aram guprītā, kuprītā, kebrītā, whence Ar kibrīt. According to the author, Akk kuprītu is perh. a development from Akk kupru ‘bitumen’ (> Hbr kōper, Aram kuprā > Ar kufr), which belongs to Akk kapāru ‘to wipe off; to smear on (a paint or liquid)’. According to Huehnergard2011, the latter is from Sem KPR ‘to wipe clean, polish, purify, cover’ (cf. Ar ↗kafara ‘to cover, hide’, Hbr yôm kippûr ‘Yom Kippur, day of atonement’, from kippā̈r ‘to cover over (fig.), pacify, atone, make propitiation’).
▪ Is also the plant-name ʔabū kabīr ‘asafoetida, devil’s dung’ (KBR_6 s.v. ↗KBR) related? There is no obvious semantic relation between the plant and the adj. ↗kabīr, but there is perh. one between the asafoetida herb’s fetid smell and sulfur. Given that the etymon of Ar kibrīt, Akk kuprītu, is likely to be based on Akk kupru ‘bitumen’, a relation between ʔabū kabīr and the source of kabrīt should perh. be considered.

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► ʕūd kibrīt, n., matches, a match.
► kibrīt ʔamān, n., safety matches.

► kabrata, vb. I, to coat with sulfur; to sulfurize, sulfurate; to vulcanize: denom.
► kibrītaẗ, n.f., match, matchstick: n.un.
► kibrītī, adj., sulfureous, sulfurate, sulfurous, sulfuric: nsb-adj. | ḥammām ~, n., sulfur bath; yanbūʕ ~, n., sulfur spring.
. ► kibrītāt, n., sulfate (chem.): neolog.
► kibrītīd, n., sulfide (chem.): neolog.
► kibrītīk: ḥāmiḍ ~, n., sulfuric acid (chem.): neolog.

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