ʾ b r
26 lemmas · 8 languages
hamzatedContains ʾ (glottal stop) in position 1 or 3. Glottal stops assimilate or elide in many inflections, producing irregular surface forms.T Gen.49.24
Themes:son· اِبْن · בֵּן·4lead·3needle·3abraham·2man· رَجُل · אִישׁ·2
POS shape:noun·14name·5verb·5root·1adj·1
This root is attested across 8 Semitic languages in our index. Each section below shows representative lemmas; attested means a Wiktionary editor explicitly tagged the root, inferredmeans we derived it mechanically from the word's consonantal skeleton.
Etymology treehow this root diverged from Proto-Semitic through the family
*ʾ-b-rProto-Semitic
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Northwest Semitic
Canaanite
Hebrewאֵבֶרא ב ר— limb, organ
Aramaic
Imperial Aramaicאבראא ב ר— lead
Syriacܐܒܪܐܐ ܒ ܪ— lead
Assyrian NAܐܲܒ݂ܵܪܵܐܐ ܒ ܪ— lead (a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity)
Turoyoܐܒܪܐܐ ܒ ܪ— son
Western NAܐܒܪܐܐ ܒ ܪ— son
Arabic
Arabicأَبَرَء ب ر— to bite, to sting
South Semitic
Ethio-Semitic
Amharicአቧራአ በ ረ— dust
Branch structure: Huehnergard (2005), Rubin (2010). The reconstructed Proto-Semitic form is computed on the fly from the cognate set's majority reflex pattern.
Imperial Aramaic
arc · 2 lemmas- lead
- AbrahamEtymology tree
Classical Syriac
syc · 2 lemmas- leadPossibly from Akkadian 𒀀𒈖 (abāru [A.GAR₅]); compare Hebrew אֲבָר (ʾăḇār).
- featherCompare Hebrew אֶבְרָה (ʾeḇrâ).
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
aii · 5 lemmas- lead (a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity)Inherited from Aramaic אֲבָרָא (ʾăḇārā), from Akkadian 𒀀𒈖 (abāru [A.GAR₅]); compare Hebrew אֲבָר (ʾăḇār).
- sonFrom the older form ܒܪܵܐ (brā) with a prosthetic alaph, inherited from Aramaic בְּרָא (bərā), from Proto-Semitic *bin-; compare Turoyo ܐܱܒܪܐ (äbro), Arabic اِبْن (ibn), Hebrew בֵּן (ben) and Akkadian 𒁉𒉏 (bīnum). Largely replaced by the diminutive ܒܪܘܿܢܵܐ (brōnā).
- AbramFrom Biblical Hebrew אַבְרָם (ʾaḇrām).
- AbrahamEtymology tree
- Son of ManSemi-learned borrowing from Classical Syriac ܒܪܐ ܕܐܢܫܐ (brā d-ʾənāšā).
Hebrew
he · 6 lemmas- limb, organ
- the Strong, a poetic name for God
- pinion, wing
- organ (the larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions)
▸ 1 derivation
- derivedחַד אֵיבָרkhad eivár
- to soar, fly
- Related to limbs, wings.
Arabic
ar · 8 lemmas- to bite, to sting
- needle-man, who makes or sells needlesOccupational noun from إِبْرَة (ʔibra, “needle”).
- needle (all senses)
- packing needleTool noun from the root ء ب ر (ʔ b r).
- masculine plural of أَبْرَد (ʔabrad)
Amharic
am · 1 lemma- dust
Turoyo
tru · 1 lemma- son
Western Neo-Aramaic
amw · 1 lemma- son