كبر

Cognate to Hebrew כבר (k-b-r, “to be great”, “to be many”).

• kabura

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• IPA^(key): /ka.bu.ra/
• (Gulf Arabic) IPA^(key): /ˈkɪbɐr/
• (Hijazi Arabic) IPA^(key): /ˈkibir/

كَبُرَ • (kabura) I, non-past يَكْبُرُ‎ (yakburu) (stative)

1. to be or become big
2. to grow, to grow up
3. to become famous
4. to become too great (for something)
5. to disdain
6. to become too oppressive
7. to appear intolerable
8. to become too difficult

كُبْر • (kubr) m

1. verbal noun of كَبُرَ (kabura) (form I)

كَبَرَ • (kabara) I, non-past يَكْبُرُ‎ (yakburu)

1. (stative, transitive) to be older than
   • 1949, Naguib Mahfouz, The beginning and the end, Dar El-Shorouk, page 6:

     يَكْبُرُ أَخَاهُ بِعَامَيْنِ

     yakburu ʾaḵāhu bi-ʿāmayni

     He is two years older than his brother

كَبْر • (kabr) m

1. verbal noun of كَبَرَ (kabara) (form I)

كَبَّرَ • (kabbara) II, non-past يُكَبِّرُ‎ (yukabbiru)

1. (transitive, causative) to enlarge, to make something bigger.
2. (intransitive) to say اَللّٰهُ أَكْبَر (allāhu ʔakbar, “God is greatest”)

• Maltese: kabbar

كُبَر • (kubar) pl (singular كُبْرَى (kubrā))

1. great calamities
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 74:35:

     إِنَّهَا لَإِحْدَى الْكُبَرِ

     ʔinnahā laʔiḥdā al-kubari

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

كُبَّر • (kubbar) f

1. Kubbar, an uninhabited island in the Bay of Kuwait

From Classical Syriac ܩܦܪ (qappar, qappār, “caper-bush”) or Classical Syriac ܟܦܪ (kappar, kappār), considered from Ancient Greek κάππαρις (kápparis) of uncertain likely Asian origin.
For the variation a ⇌ ā in Aramaisms, compare سُكَّر (sukkar), سُكَّار (sukkār, “bolt-lock”) and قُنْبَر (qunbar), قُنْبَار (qunbār), كُنْبَار (kunbār, “coir”).

• كَبَّار (kabbār), قَبَّار (qabbār)

كَبَر • (kabar) m

1. caper (Capparis gen. and especially Capparis spinosa, as well as the edible buds from it)

   Synonyms: شَفَلَّح (šafallaḥ), عِتْر (ʕitr), لَصَف (laṣaf)

• → Middle Armenian: կապպար (kappar)
• → Galician: alcaparra
• → Portuguese: alcaparra
• → Spanish: alcaparra, alcaparro

Borrowed from Ge'ez ከበሮ (käbäro, “drum, timbrel”).

كَبَر • (kabar) m (plural كِبَار (kibār) or أَكْبَار (ʔakbār))

1. (obsolete) drum, timbrel

• Freytag, Georg (1837) “كبر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 3–4
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “كبر”, 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 (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 853
• Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden‎ (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 322–331
• Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎ (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 56
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “كبر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1081–1083

From Arabic كَبَّرَ (kabbara).

• IPA^(key): /kab.bar/, [ˈkab.bar]

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كبّر • (kabbar) II (present بكبّر (bikabber))

1. to enlarge
2. (by extension) to exaggerate

   Synonym: بالغ (bālaḡ)