ق ب و

Arabic

Root

ق ب و • (q-b-w)

1. related to vaults or contractions

Derived terms

• Form I: قَبَا (qabā, “to collect with the fingers, to amass with the hand; to contract; to vault”)
  • Verbal noun: قَبْو (qabw)
  • Active participle: قَابٍ (qābin)
  • Passive participle: مَقْبُوّ (maqbuww)
• Form II: قَبَّى (qabbā, “to vault”)
  • Verbal noun: تَقْبِيَة (taqbiya)
  • Active participle: مُقَبٍّ (muqabbin)
  • Passive participle: مُقَبًّى (muqabban)
• Form VII: اِنْقَبَى (inqabā, “to hide (oneself)”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْقِبَاء (inqibāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُنْقَبٍ (munqabin)
• Form VIII: اِقْتَبَى (iqtabā, “to arrange, to prepare”)
  • Verbal noun: اِقْتِبَاء (iqtibāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُقْتَبٍ (muqtabin)
  • Passive participle: مُقْتَبًى (muqtaban)

• قِبَاء (qibāʔ, “interspace”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1835) “ق ب و”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 395–396
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ق ب و”, 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 670
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ق ب و”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1000
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “قبو”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 869–870