Proto-Semitic root
*kapār-
‘village’
di Mino’s gloss: village, hamlet; town
Record K0100 ↗ · Basis: kaphtor
In Linear A2 entries
Notes
Arb. kafr ‘village’ is from Syriac (HALOT 494). Pitch: Heb. kōper (Gn 6:14), Syr. kūprā ‘pitch, bitumen’ (Payne Smith 210) and Arb. kufr, qafr go back to Akk. kupru (HALOT 495). ‘Wipe, cover’: 2997.
Reflexes11 languages
East Semitic2
- Akkadiankapru (HALOT 494)gloss withheldAnderson–Moser 2024 root kpr
- Eblaiticga-ba-ru₁₂ /kapr/ (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 315)ga-ba-ru₁₂ /kapru/ = Sum. é-dur (for é-dur₅) (VE 316; Civil 2017, 115)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic7
- Aramaickpr (Aramaic Root Atlas; CAL s.v. kpr)gloss withheldAnderson–Moser 2024 root kpr
- Hebrewkapar ‘village’ (BDB 499)Anderson–Moser 2024 root kpr
- Punickpr ‘town’Anderson–Moser 2024 root kpr
- Phoeniciankpr, in the place name kprʾ (Krahmalkov 240)gloss withheld
- Ugaritickpr ‘village’Anderson–Moser 2024 root kpr
- Syrian Aramaickpar ‘village, hamlet’ (Payne Smith 223)
- Amoritekapr (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 315)gloss withheld
Epigraphic South Arabian1
- Epigraphic South Arabiankpr (HALOT 494)gloss withheld
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian1
- Geezkapar ‘village’Anderson–Moser 2024 root kpr
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.