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كبر

Pronunciation: /ka.bu.ra/

“كبر” is an Arabic word. Its 19 meanings in English:

verb

  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 be too proud, to snub, to disdain
  6. to become too oppressive, to appear intolerable, to become too difficult, to become troublesome
  7. to be older than
  8. to enlarge, to make something bigger
  9. to say اَللّٰهُ أَكْبَر (allāhu ʔakbar, “God is greatest”)

noun

  1. great calamities
  2. greatness, largeness
  3. magnificence, majesty
  4. old age
  5. majesty, glory, highness
  6. pride, presumptuosity, superciliousness, haughtiness, greed for glory
  7. leonine share, greatest deal, bulk
  8. caper (Capparis gen. and especially Capparis spinosa, as well as the edible buds from it)
  9. drum, timbrel

proper noun

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

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Semitic *kabar- together with Hebrew כָּבַר (kāḇár, “to be great, to become great; to be many, to multiply”), Akkadian kabārum (“to be or become thick”) etc.

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