Proto-Semitic root
*ʕVbur- 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 ~ *ʕa/ibr- 5
‘cross’ 1, ‘extend beyond (something)’ 2, ‘move through, pass over, by, travel (along a road)’ 3, ‘inundate, invade’ 4, ‘(river) bank’ 5, ‘go far away’ 6
di Mino’s gloss: to cross over, pass beyond; far bank
Record 1543 ↗ · SED semet 1641 · Basis: SED, meaning edited
In Linear A2 entries
Reflexes17 languages
East Semitic2
- Akkadianebēru 1 (water), 2 (CAD E 10)
- Eblaiticcf. a-bar-rí-iš /ʿabar/ 5 (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 66)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic9
- Ugariticʕbr 1mʿbr /maʿbaru/ (UVST 158)gloss withheld
- Phoenicianʿbr (Krahmalkov 359)gloss withheld
- Hebrewʕbr 3 (HALOT 778), ʕäbär 5
- Syrian Aramaicʕbr 1, 4 (Payne Smith 398)
- Judaic Aramaicʿibrā (HALOT 781)gloss withheld
- Aramaicʿbr (T 237)
- Mandaic Aramaicʿbr (T 237)
- Amoriteʿibirt 4: cf. month name e-bir₅-tim, ḫi-bi-ir-tim (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 66)gloss withheld
- Biblical Aramaic*ʕăbar 5 (HALOT BArm. s.v. עֲבַר)gloss withheld
Arabic2
- Arabicʕbr [-u-] 1, 3ʕubr- 5
- Modern ArabicE. Yem. ʿabr (Biella 350)
Epigraphic South Arabian1
- Epigraphic South Arabianʕbr 1 (Sabaweb lemma 3313)Qat. mʕbr 5 (Ricks 1982 s.v. mʕbr)gloss withheld
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian3
- Mehriʔābōr 1
- Jibbaliʕɔ̄r 1, 6 (caus. aʕbér) JJ 6
- Soqotriʿbr (T 237)áˁber (SLOnline 24705)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.