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)
  • Passive participle: مَكْبُور (makbūr)
• Form I: كَبِرَ (kabira)
  • Verbal noun: كِبَر (kibar)
  • 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, “old age”)
• كُبَار (kubār, “very great”), كُبَّر (kubbar)
• كِبْرِيَاء (kibriyāʔ, “grandeur, pride”)
• مُكَبِّرَة (mukabbira, “magnifying glass”)

Proper nouns

• كُبَّر (kubbar) — w:Kubbar, and Island in Kuwait

References

Wehr, Hans (1979) “كبر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

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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”)