Proto-Semitic root

*yVpVʕ-

‘shine’ 1, ‘go up, rise’ 2

di Mino’s gloss: to shine forth; to rise, go up

Record 782 ↗ · SED semet 787 · Basis: SED, meaning edited

In Linear A3 entries

A-WA-PIʾawpiʿpersonal name, 'he shone forth' (causative of w-p-ʿ 'be brilliant')SpeculativeSemitic13D JA-PAYapaʿ(u)personal name ("he shines"—Amarna Yapaḫu)SpeculativeSemitic1 JA-WA-PIYawpiʿYawpiʿ 'He has shone forth' (personal name)SpeculativeSemitic1

Notes

HALOT 424 compares Akk. (w)apû ‘to be visible’, šūpû ‘to make visible’ with Heb. ypʿ (hif.) ‘to shine forth’. Akk. wapû: K0432. Huffmon APNM 212 separates *wpʿ ‘be brilliant’ (Heb. hōpīaʿ, Akk. wapû) from *ypʿ ‘raise up; avail’ (OSA, Arab., Ugar.), "due to the disagreement between *w and *y".

Reflexes5 languages

Northwest Semitic3

Hebrewypʕ: yāpaʿ hif. 1 (HALOT 424)gloss withheld
Ugariticypʿ 2 (CUC; DULAT 958)Ia-pa-milku /Yapaʿ-milku/ 1 (OLA80 §45.8)gloss withheld
Amoritejpʿ: ja(j)paʿ, jāpaʿ, japaʿ, jāpiʿ (Gelb AS 21, 22)yipʿa, yapaʿ, yâpuʿ (Buck 2019, 334)y-p-ʿ 1: ia-a-pa-aḫ, ia-pa-ḫu-um, ià-pá-um (Ur III) (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 374)gloss withheld

Arabic1

Arabicyafaʿa ‘to go up (a mountain)’ 2yafaʿ ‘hill’yāfiʿāt ‘high places, heights’ (BK 2 1631)yāfiʿ ‘a boy grown up, grown tall’ (Lane 3063)

Epigraphic South Arabian1

Epigraphic South ArabianSab yfʿ 2 (Biella 233)yfʿ 2 (SD 168)yfʿ 2 (Sabaweb lemma 1506)gloss withheld

† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.