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▪ Within the root ↗√HLB, hulb ʻhair, bristles’ seems to be the source of most of the obvious derivatives, both in MSA and ClassAr.
▪ The word itself is of unknown etymology. No cognates outside Ar.
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hist

▪ Other historically attested meanings derived from ʻhair’: ^†halaba (i, halb) ʻto pull out the long hairs of a horse’s tail or the bristles of a pig’, ^†haliba (a, halab) ʻto be hairy’, ^†hulbaẗ ʻthe hair that is above the pubes, extending near to the navel’.
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cogn

▪ DRS 5 (1995) #HLB-1 Ar hulb ʻcrins, soies, cheveux’, haliba ʻavoir beaucoup de cheveux’, halaba ʻarracher les cheveux, etc’; mahlūb ʻcheval à la queue coupée’, halaba ʻse moquer de, injurier’; halbaẗ ʻrigueur (de l’hiver, du sort, etc.)’, HispAr halb ʻdéfilage du tissu’, mahlūb ʻfuselé, en forme de fuseau’; maraz. hallab ʻdéchirer, mettre en lambeaux’.
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disc

▪ DRS regards the obsolete values ^†ʻto scold, revile, lampoon, satirize’ (^†halaba, ^†hallaba) and ^†ʻseverity, intensity (of fortune, of winter)’ (^†hulbaẗ, ^†hulubbaẗ) as belonging to this complex, prob. on account of the “hair-plucking, hair-raising” or “stinging” effect of both satire and the winter’s cold or a heavy blow of destiny.
▪ Should we also include ↗hilb ʻanchor, grapnel, grappling iron, boat hook’ in the picture? (Lane viii 1893 reports that accord. to some ClassAr lexicographers, pigs’ bristles were used to sew skins etc., hence *ʻbristles > needle > hook’?).
▪ ClassAr ^†ĭhtalaba, vb. VIII, ʻto unsheath (a sword)’ is perh. fig. use of ^†halaba (i, halb) ʻto pull out the long hairs of a horse’s tail or the bristles of a pig’, and thus from hulb.
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deriv

►haliba, a (halab), vb. I, to be hairy, covered with hair
►halib, adj., hairy, covered with hair; shaggy, hirsute
►ʔahlabᵘ, f. halbāʔᵘ, pl. hulb, adj., hairy, hirsute, shaggy

For other values attached to the root, see ↗hilb, ↗hulābaẗ, and ↗mahallabiyyaẗ, as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√HLB.

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