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Root n-b-ʾ

Imperial Aramaic ↔ Arabic

Both languages share identical consonants at this root —n-b-ʾ↔ n-b-ʾ. No Proto-Semitic sound change separates them here.

Imperial Aramaic

arc
root: n-b-ʾ
  • נבאverb
    to prophesy
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Arabic

ar
root: n-b-ʾ
  • نَبَأnabaʔnoun
    news, tidings, story
  • نَبَأَnabaʔaverb
    to bark
  • نَبَّأَnabbaʔaverb
    to inform, to give news, to notify, to bode, to announce
  • نَبِيّnabiyynoun
    prophet
  • أَنْبَأَʔanbaʔaverb
    to inform, to notify
  • تَنَبَّأَtanabbaʔaverb
    to predict, to foresee
  • نُبُوَّةnubuwwanoun
    prophethood
  • نُبُوءَةnubūʔanoun
    a prophecy, a prediction
Canonical root family: n-b-ʾ