كبرياء

Arabic

Root
ك ب ر (k b r)
10 terms

Etymology

It is doubted that the formation, otherwise paralleled in the name of the seventh heaven عِرْبِيَاء (ʕirbiyāʔ) ~ جِرْبِياء (jirbiyāʔ), is native, since only in Ge'ez the root of ከብረ (käbrä) has acquired the meanings of “haughtiness”; كِبْر (kibr, “glory, pride, power”) also directly corresponds to Ge'ez ክብር (kəbr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kib.ri.jaːʔ/

Noun

كِبْرِيَاء • (kibriyāʔ) f

1. greatness
2. pride, arrogance, haughtiness
3. power

Declension

Declension of noun كِبْرِيَاء (kibriyāʔ)

Singular	basic singular diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	كِبْرِيَاء kibriyāʔ	الْكِبْرِيَاء al-kibriyāʔ	كِبْرِيَاء kibriyāʔ
Nominative	كِبْرِيَاءُ kibriyāʔu	الْكِبْرِيَاءُ al-kibriyāʔu	كِبْرِيَاءُ kibriyāʔu
Accusative	كِبْرِيَاءَ kibriyāʔa	الْكِبْرِيَاءَ al-kibriyāʔa	كِبْرِيَاءَ kibriyāʔa
Genitive	كِبْرِيَاءَ kibriyāʔa	الْكِبْرِيَاءِ al-kibriyāʔi	كِبْرِيَاءِ kibriyāʔi

References

• Ahrens, Karl (1930) “Christliches im Qoran. Eine Nachlese”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[1] (in German), volume 84, page 23
• Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, page 248
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “كبرياء”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[2], London: W.H. Allen, page 871b