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1a (pl. lubūb) kernel, core (of fruits); b the innermost, marrow, pith; c core, gist, essence; d prime, best part; 2 (pl. ʔalbāb) a heart; b mind, intellect, reason, understanding – WehrCowan1976.

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▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#1668: from protSem *libab‑ ‘heart’ < AfrAs *lib‑ / *lub‑ ‘heart’.
▪ Kogan2015: from protSem *libb‑ ‘heart’ (SED I No. 174). Successors of protSem *libb‑ are the main word for ‘heart’ throughout Sem, except in Ar, where it is replaced by ↗qalb, probably related to Akk ḳablu ‘middle’ (SED I No. 161). In Ar, protSem *libb‑ is preserved as lubb ‘what is in the inside; understanding, intelligence, mind’ (Lane 2643).

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▪ Bergsträsser1928: Akk libbu, Hbr lēḇ, Aram lebbā, Gz lebb ‘heart’
▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#1668: Akk libbu, Ug lb, Hbr lēb, Syr lebbā, Gz ləbb, Ḥrs ḥelbēb, Mhr ḥewbēb, Soq elbeb). – Outside Sem: Eg (pyr) i͗b ‘heart’, (WCh) ləp ‘lungs’ (in 1 idiom), (CCh) liḅī, lib(i) ‘belly, stomach'; ʔurvə‑ŋude, rivi‑ḍiya, arve ‘heart’, (ECh) ʔulbo ‘heart’ (1 idiom), Agaw läbbäka, läbakaa, ləbäkaa ‘heart’, (SA) Afar lubbi ‘heart’, (LEC) Som laab, Or lubbu, labbe, (Omot) yiboo ‘heart’, libʔa ‘belly’, (Rift) liba ‘chest’ (1 idom).
▪ Elmedlaoui2012 treats lubb and ↗qalb as one item and gives Berb ul / ulaw‑n ‘heart/s’ as cognates.
▪ See also ↗√LBː (LBB) !

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▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#1668: protSem *libab‑ ‘heart’, Eg (pyr) i͗b ‘heart’, protWCh *l˅b‑, protCCh *(H˅‑)lib‑, protECh *lub‑, protAgaw *l˅b‑ak‑ ‘heart’ (suffix *‑ak‑), protSA *lub(b)‑, protLEC *lab‑ / *lub‑ ‘heart’, protOmot *lib‑ ‘heart’, protRift *lib‑ ‘chest’; all from a hypothetical AfrAs *lib‑ / *lub‑ ‘heart’.
▪ Any relation to ↗labba ‘to stay, remain, abide’ and/or ↗labab ‘upper part of the chest, throat; breast collar (of a horse’s harness); martingale¹ ; to gird o.s.’? Cf. also EgAr ↗libbaẗ ‘golden necklace’.
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1. strap passing between the forelegs of a horse as part of the harness

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► labba / labib‑, a (labab), and ~ / labub‑, u (labābaẗ), vb. I, to be sensible, reasonable, intelligent: prob. denom. from lubb [v2b].
► labbaba, vb. II, to kernel, ripen into kernels, produce kernels (grain, nuts): D‑stem, caus., denom. of [v1].
► talabbaba, vb. V, to gird o.s., prepare o.s.: Dt‑stem, intr./refl., from labab (akin to lubb [v1])?

► labbaẗ, pl. ‑āt, n.f., 1a upper part of the chest; b throat of an animal, spot where its throat is slit in slaughtering: akin to lubb [v1]?
► EgAr libbaẗ, n.f., golden necklace: akin to lubb [v1]?
► labab, pl. ʔalbāb, n., 1 = labbaẗ; 2 breast collar (of a horse’s harness); 3 martingale¹ : akin to lubb [v1]?
► lubāb, n., marrow, pith, core, quintessence, gist, prime, best part.
► labīb, pl. ʔalibbāʔᵘ, adj., understanding, reasonable, sensible, intelligent: ints.adj., quasi-PP, from labba / lubb [v2].
► talbīb, pl. talābībᵘ, n., collar: taFʕīL formation, rarely producing nouns other than vn. II, but here evidently used to signify an object that is worn on the chest, like labab / EgAr libbaẗ.

For other items of the root, cf. ↗labba, ↗lubb, ↗labbaẗ, ↗EgAr libbaẗ, ↗labab, and, for the overall picture, ↗LBː (LBB).

1. strap passing between the forelegs of a horse as part of the harness

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