ܓܘܒܐ

From Proto-Semitic *gubb-. Compare Arabic جُبّ (jubb), Hebrew גֹּב (goḇ) and גֵּב (gēḇ), Aramaic גב (/⁠gōb⁠/, “pit, moat”), Akkadian 𒁺𒁍 (/⁠gubbu⁠/, “reservoir, cistern”), Tigrinya ጋው (gawə).

• IPA^(key): [ɡubbɑ] (singular)
• IPA^(key): [ɡubbe] (plural)

ܓܘܒܐ • (gubbā) m (plural ܓܘܒܐ, singular feminine counterpart ܓܘܒܬܐ)

1. large hole or cavity in the ground either natural or artificial; den, pit, ditch, trench
2. such a hole used for storing liquids; cistern, reservoir, well

• → Old Armenian: գուբ (gub)
  • Armenian: գուբ (gub)
  • → Cappadocian Greek: γούπα (goúpa), κούπα (koúpa)
  • →? Old Georgian: გუბჱ (gubē) (or directly from Semitic)
    • Georgian: გუბე (gube), გუბ (gub) — Ingilo, გუბი (gubi) — Khevi
      • → Bats: გუბ class bd (gub)
  • → Laz: გუბი (gubi)

Possibly related to Persian گنبد (gonbad, “dome”).

• IPA^(key): [ɡuvɑ] (singular)
• IPA^(key): [ɡuve] (plural)

ܓܘܒܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܓܘܒܐ)

1. beam, joist, plank, board
2. rafter

• “gwb”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, page 44a
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 62b
• Sokoloff, Michael (2009) A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana, Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press, →ISBN, page 210b