ك ب ر

See also: كبر, كثر, گبر, and ك ث ر

Arabic

Root

ك ب ر • (k-b-r)

1. related to being big, large, old, great.

Derived terms

Verbs and verb derivatives

• Form I: كَبَرَ (kabara, “to be older than”)
  • Verbal noun: كَبْر (kabr)
  • Active participle: كَابِر (kābir)
  • Passive participle: مَكْبُور (makbūr)
• Form I: كَبُرَ (kabura, “to be or become big, important, proud, difficult”)
  • Verbal noun: كِبَر (kibar), كُبْر (kubr), كَبَارَة (kabāra), كُبَارَة (kubāra)
  • Passive participle: مَكْبُور (makbūr)
• Form II: كَبَّرَ (kabbara, “to make bigger, exaggerate, praise”)
  • Verbal noun: تَكْبِير (takbīr, “increase, exaggeration, praise”)
  • Active participle: مُكَبِّر (mukabbir, “amplifier”)
  • Passive participle: مُكَبَّر (mukabbar, “magnified”)
• Form III: كَابَرَ (kābara, “to treat with disdain, contend with, oppose, renounce”)
  • Verbal noun: مُكَابَرَة (mukābara, “haughtiness, stubbornness”)
  • Active participle: مُكَابِر (mukābir, “haughty, quarrelsome, stubborn”)
  • Passive participle: مُكَابَر (mukābar)
• Form IV: أَكْبَرَ (ʔakbara, “to consider great or important, praise”)
  • Verbal noun: إِكْبَار (ʔikbār, “admiration, deference”)
  • Active participle: مُكْبِر (mukbir)
  • Passive participle: مُكْبَر (mukbar)
• Form V: تَكَبَّرَ (takabbara, “to be haughty”)
  • Verbal noun: تَكَبُّر (takabbur)
  • Active participle: مُتَكَبِّر (mutakabbir, “haughty”)
• Form VI: تَكَابَرَ (takābara, “to be haughty”)
  • Verbal noun: تَكَابُر (takābur)
  • Active participle: مُتَكَابِر (mutakābir)
  • Passive participle: مُتَكَابَر (mutakābar)
• Form X: اِسْتَكْبَرَ (istakbara, “to deem great or important, to be haughty”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِكْبَار (istikbār)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَكْبِر (mustakbir)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَكْبَر (mustakbar)

Nouns and other parts of speech

• كَبِير (kabīr, “great”)
  • كَبِيرَة (kabīra, “great sin”)
  • أَكْبَر (ʔakbar, “greater”)
• كَبْرَة (kabra), كِبْرَة (kibra, “old age”)
• كُبَار (kubār), كُبَّار (kubbār, “very great”), كُبَّر (kubbar)
• مُكَبِّرَة (mukabbira, “magnifying glass”)

Proper nouns

• كُبَّر (kubbar) — Kubbar, an Island in Kuwait

Nouns borrowed from other Semitic languages

• كِبْر (kibr, “glory, majesty, highness; pride, greed for glory; greatest share in anything”)
• كِبْرِيَاء (kibriyāʔ, “grandeur, pride; lion's share”)

References

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 1087–1088
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ك ب ر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 3–4
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ك ب ر”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 853
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ك ب ر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1081–1083
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2020) “ك ب ر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 6th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 781

South Levantine Arabic

Root

ك ب ر • (transliteration needed)

1. Related to being large

Derived terms

Verbs and verb forms

• Form II: كبّر (kabbar, “to enlarge; to exaggerate”)
• Form V: تكبّر (tkabbar, “to boast, be arrogant”)

Nouns

• كبر (kubr, “size”)
• كبر (kabar, “age, adulthood”)

Adjectives

• كبير (kbīr, “large; adult, old”)