كبڛ

Soqotri

Etymology

Akin to Mehri [script needed] (kebś), [script needed] (kêbeś), Shehri [script needed] (koś), and Arabic كَبْش (kabš).

Noun

كبڛ (kobŝ) m (dual كبڛي (kobŝi), plural كابڛ (kéboŝ))

1. ram
   • 2018, “Riddles”, in Vitaly Naumkin, compiler, Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 2, page 180, line 16:

     قعك توك إنام دأيهو تاتن ڸبهنيتين دباسن طاد كبڛ دمڸامو؟

     ḳaʕk tok inɛ́m díʔyho tɛ́tən ḷəbhinítin di-bésən ṭad kobŝ di-mɛḷɛ́mo

     Now I'll ask you a riddle: what is my white sheep, among which there is a bright-white ram?

References

• Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2014) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 1, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 574
• Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2018) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 497
• Leslau, Wolf (1938) “kobś”, in Lexique Soqotri (sudarabique moderne) avec comparaisons et explications étymologiques (in French), Wiesbaden: Libraire C. Klincksieck, page 214