v. (Ia)

a. wa-ˁö́mor ˁag deʰ di-men saḳɔ́ṭri aḷ-ˁad ľiḥbós wa-sámaḥt toʸh ‘The Soqotri man said: “May he not be imprisoned, I forgive him’ (CSOL I 15:12)

b. ṭad ˁag ḥíbɛs ‘A certain man was imprisoned’ (CSOL III 9:6)

c. wa-ŝink ho metemhedéten iľ-ˁírɛr wa-ḥawabósen ‘I saw the goats to be slaughtered for the funeral, which were enclosed and shut in’ (CSOL I 10:8)

pass. ḥíbɛs (yeḥóubos/ľiḥbós): example b.

A poetic form: ḥawabósen (instead of the paradigmatically expected ḥoubósen): example c.

• ḥᵃbes to be the cause of somebody’s imprisonment
• ḥabs prison