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kalb كَلْب , pl. kilāb
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ID 765 • Sw 21/30 • BP 1267 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√KLB
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dog – WehrCowan1979.
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▪ Kogan2015 (Sw#18): from protSem *kalb‑ ‘dog’ (SED II #115). Passim except SEthSem.
▪ Was the animal eponymous for the disease (rabies), or vice versa? ↗√KLB
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▪ Bergsträsser1928: Akk kalbu, Hbr kéleḇ, Aram kalb.ā, Gz ‎‎kalb ‘dog’.
DRS 10 (2012)#KLB–1 Akk kalb‑ , Ug klb, Hbr keleb, Phn klb, Aram kalbā, Ar kalb, Sab klb ‘dog’, Śḥr kob ‘wolf’, ekob ‘dog’, Mhr kawb ‘wolf’, Soq kalb, Gz kalb, Te kälb, Tña kälbi ‘dog’.
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▪ Diakonoff1998 thinks the word may be segmented into a root *kal‑ plus AfrAs »key ‎consonant« *‑b for strong and/or dangerous animals, cf. also ↗ʔarnab, dubb, ḏiʔb, ḏubāb, labb, ʕaqrab, ṯaʕlab
▪ See also √KLB for kalab ‘rabies’.
▪ Outside Sem, kalb may be akin to biconsonantal themes like *KL, *KR, or*KN, in Cush and/or Chad, cf. Orel&Stolbova 1994 s.v. ‘dog’ in the index. – »Vicichl Delc 79 cite le copte kalōpou ‘petit chien’, qu’il estime probablement sémitique. – L’histoire de ce nom qui, au moins dans une certaine mesure, doit recouvrir, celle de l’animal lui-même, si anciennement domestiqué, est certes complexe, et les rapprochements opérés ne peuvent prendre sens qu’avec d’autres études […]. Il n’en reste pas moins qu’il semble difficile de passer sous silence la forme indo-européenne représentée en latin par canes, canis et en Grk kyṓn, et dont la structure pose quelques problèmes«.
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al-kalb al-ʔakbar the constellation Canis Major with its main star Sirius:.
al-kalb ‎al-ʔaṣġar the constellation Canis Minor with its main star Procyon:.
kalb al-baḥr shark:.
kalb al-māʔ otter; beaver:.

kalbaẗ, pl. ‑āt, n., bitch: f. of kalb.
kalbī, adj., canine: nsb-adj.

kullāb, var. kallāb, pl. kalālībᵘ, n., hook; cramp: figurative (like a dog’s mouth)? Rolland2014a thinks the word is probably a loan from Pers kalab ‘bec (d’oiseau)’.
kullābaẗ, var. kallābaẗ, pl. ‑āt, n., (pair of) pincers, tongs, forceps: f. of kullāb /kallāb and thus figurative from kalb ? Or from Pers kalab ‘bec (d’oiseau)’ (as Rolland2014a thinks likely)?

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