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كٞارٞب

kéreb

basic morphological information

n.

wooden mouthpiece of the composite smoking pipe
деревянный мундштук традиционной сокотрийской курительной трубки
الجزء الخشبي للغليون السقطري

CSOL I 580

text examples

wa-yóudof ḷe-ṣ̌áˁarhɛr wa-yaˀágaḥš di-kéreb ‘He takes the pipe and joins it with the mouthpiece’ (CSOL I 18:3)

root

kereb

etymology

Etymologically uncertain. Сf. perhaps Arb. karabat- ‘the piece of wood into which is inserted the head of a tent-pole’. Note also JBA krbˀ ‘stump of a palm branch’, Arb. karab- ‘stump of the palm branch’.