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ṣ b ʾ

18 lemmas · 7 languages
hamzatedContains ʾ (glottal stop) in position 1 or 3. Glottal stops assimilate or elide in many inflections, producing irregular surface forms.T Exod.12.41
Themes:desire·4military·4wish·2armed·2forces·2
POS shape:noun·13verb·3adj·2

This root is attested across 7 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

*ṣ-b-ʾProto-Semitic
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Northwest Semitic
Ugaritic𐎕𐎁𐎛𐎎𐎕 𐎁 𐎛troops
Canaanite
Hebrewצָבָאצ ב אa military (armed forces)
Aramaic
Imperial Aramaicצבאצ ב אto desire, to will, to wish
Syriacܨܒܝܢܐܨ ܒ ܐdesire, will
Assyrian NAܨܵܒ݂ܹܐܨ ܒ ܐto desire, to will, to wish
South Semitic
Ethio-Semitic
Ge'ezጸባኢጸ በ አsoldier, warrior, fighter
Tigrinyaጸባጸ በ አmilk

Branch structure: Huehnergard (2005), Rubin (2010). The reconstructed Proto-Semitic form is computed on the fly from the cognate set's majority reflex pattern.

Ugaritic

irregular reflexug · 1 lemma
  • ṣbỉmnouninferredWiktionary ↗
    troops
    Compare Hebrew צָבָא (ṣāḇā).

Imperial Aramaic

arc · 1 lemma

Classical Syriac

syc · 2 lemmas
  • nounattestedWiktionary ↗
    desire, will
    From the root ܨ ܒ ܐ related to willing.
  • nounattestedWiktionary ↗
    will
    From ܨܒܝܢܝܐ (ṣeḇyānāyā, “willing, voluntary”), from ܨܒܝܢܐ (ṣeḇyānā, “will, desire”), from the root ܨ ܒ ܐ related to willing + the abstract noun suffix -ܘܬܐ (-ūṯā).

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

aii · 4 lemmas
  • ṣāḇēverbattestedWiktionary ↗
    to desire, to will, to wish
    Inherited from Aramaic צְבָא (ṣəḇā).
  • ṣḇūṯānounattestedWiktionary ↗
    case, matter, business, affair
  • ṣiḇyānānounattestedWiktionary ↗
    desire, wills
    Derived from the verb ܨܵܒ݂ܹܐ (ṣāḇē, “to be willing; to desire”) of the noun pattern 1i23ānā.
    2 derivations
  • miṣṭaḇyānānounattestedWiktionary ↗
    volunteer
    Active noun of ܡܸܨܛܒ݂ܹܐ (miṣṭḇē), with the elements ܡܸܬ݂- (miṯ-, “-able; due to be”) + ܨܵܒ݂ܹܐ (ṣāḇē, “to be willing; to desire”) + -ܢܐ (-ānā, active noun ending).

Hebrew

he · 6 lemmas
  • tsaváʾnounattestedT Num.1.3Wiktionary ↗
    a military (armed forces)
    Cognate with Akkadian 𒂟 (ṣābum, “soldier, gang”) and Arabic صَبًّا (ṣabban, “abundance”).
    3 derivations
  • tsaváʾverbattestedT Num.1.3Wiktionary ↗
    To assemble, particularly to muster for military service
    Cognate with Akkadian 𒂟 (ṣābum, “soldier, gang”) and Arabic صَبًّا (ṣabban, “abundance”).
  • ts'va'íadjattestedT Job.14.14Wiktionary ↗
    Military: of or relating to a military.
    From צָבָא (tsavá) + ־י (-í).
  • ts'va'aníadjattestedWiktionary ↗
    militaristic
    From צָבָא (tsavá) + ־ָנִי (-aní).
  • tseva'ótnouninferredT Exod.12.41Wiktionary ↗
    epithet of the God of Israel (Sabaoth)
  • tsivót-nouninferredT Exod.12.41Wiktionary ↗
    plural construct state form of צָבָא (tsaváʾ)

Ge'ez

gez · 3 lemmas

Tigrinya

ti · 1 lemma

Related rootsshare 2 of 3 consonants with ṣ-b-ʾ

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