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q b l

28 lemmas · 8 languages
soundAll three consonants are regularT 2Kgs.15.10
Themes:receive·4parallel·4opposite·4face·3oppose·2
POS shape:verb·17noun·8adj·1root·1name·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

*q-bProto-Semitic
East Semitic
Akkadianqabaltiuq b l— central, middle
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Northwest Semitic
Canaanite
Hebrewקִבֵּלק ב ל— defective spelling of קיבל
Aramaic
Imperial Aramaicקבלק ב ל— to oppose
Syriacܩܒܠܩ ܒ ܠ— to accuse
Assyrian NAܩܵܒ݂ܹܠܩ ܒ ܠ— to accuse
Arabic
Arabicأَقْبَلَق ب ل— to turn forward
South Semitic
Ethio-Semitic
Amharicቀበሌቀ በ ለ— neighborhood
Tigrinyaተቐበለቐ በ ለ— to receive

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

Akkadian

akk · 1 lemma

Imperial Aramaic

arc · 1 lemma

Classical Syriac

syc · 1 lemma
  • qḇalverbattestedWiktionary ↗
    to accuse
    From the root ܩ ܒ ܠ related to receiving, meeting or accusing.

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

aii · 7 lemmas
  • qāḇēlverbattestedWiktionary ↗
    to accuse
    From Aramaic קְבַל (qəḇal); related to Arabic قَبِلَ (qabila).
    ▸ 2 derivations
  • mqabbilverbattestedWiktionary ↗
    to accept, receive, get
    Intensitive and causitive stems of the verb ܩܵܒ݂ܹܠ (qāḇēl); compare Arabic قَبَّلَ (qabbala), أَقْبَلَ (ʔaqbala), Hebrew קִבֵּל (kibél) and הִקְבִּיל (hikbíl).
    ▸ 2 derivations
  • maqbilverbattestedWiktionary ↗
    to validate, reason, convince, persuade
    Intensitive and causitive stems of the verb ܩܵܒ݂ܹܠ (qāḇēl); compare Arabic قَبَّلَ (qabbala), أَقْبَلَ (ʔaqbala), Hebrew קִבֵּל (kibél) and הִקְבִּיל (hikbíl).
  • mdalqiḇverbattestedWiktionary ↗
    to oppose, be against
    Derived from ܕܲܠܩܘܼܒ݂ܠ (dalquḇl, “against”)
  • msaqbilverbattestedWiktionary ↗
    to encounter, meet by chance, bump into, run into
    Saphel stem of the verb ܩܵܒ݂ܹܠ (qāḇēl, “to oppose; to accuse”); compare Arabic اِسْتَقْبَلَ (istaqbala).
  • qubbālānounattestedWiktionary ↗
    acceptance, receiving, admission
    Verbal noun of ܡܩܲܒܸܠ (mqabbil, “to accept, receive”).
    ▸ 1 derivation
  • q b lrootinferredWiktionary ↗
    forming words pertaining to accepting
    From Proto-Semitic; compare Arabic ق ب ل (q b l) and Hebrew ק־ב־ל (q-b-l)
    ▸ 8 derivations

Hebrew

he · 8 lemmas

Arabic

ar · 8 lemmas
  • ʔaqbalaverbattested☪︎ Q.2:4Wiktionary ↗
    to turn forward
    From the root ق ب ل (q b l), to accept.
    ▸ 1 derivation
  • taqabbalaverbattested☪︎ Q.2:4Wiktionary ↗
    to accept
    From the root ق ب ل (q b l), to accept. Compare to Hebrew ק ב ל (q-b-l).
    ▸ 1 derivation
  • qābalaverbattested☪︎ Q.2:4Wiktionary ↗
    to stand exactly opposite, to be opposite, to be face to face
    ▸ 1 derivation
  • qublanounattested☪︎ Q.2:4Wiktionary ↗
    kiss
    Compare قَبِلَ (qabila, “to receive hospitably”).
    ▸ 1 derivation
  • qabūlnounattested☪︎ Q.2:4Wiktionary ↗
    verbal noun of قَبِلَ (qabila) (form I)
  • iqtabalaverbattested☪︎ Q.2:4Wiktionary ↗
    to receive
    From the root ق ب ل (q b l), to accept.
    ▸ 1 derivation
  • taqābalaverbattested☪︎ Q.2:4Wiktionary ↗
    to stand opposite each other, to be opposite each other, to face each other
    From the root ق ب ل (q b l), to accept.
  • qābilanounattested☪︎ Q.2:4Wiktionary ↗
    midwife, accoucheuse, obstetrician

Amharic

am · 1 lemma

Tigrinya

irregular reflexti · 1 lemma

Related rootsshare 2 of 3 consonants with q-b-l

Compare two languages side-by-side

akk ↔ arcakk ↔ sycakk ↔ aiiakk ↔ heakk ↔ ar