ك ب ر

ك ب ر • (k-b-r)

1. related to being big, large, old, great.

Verbs and verb derivatives

• Form I: كَبَرَ‎ (kabara, “to be older than”)
  • Verbal noun: كَبْر‎ (kabr)
  • Active participle: كَابِر‎ (kābir)
  • Passive participle: مَكْبُور‎ (makbūr)
• Form I: كَبُرَ‎ (kabura, “to be or become big, important, proud, difficult”)
  • Verbal noun: كِبَر‎ (kibar), كُبْر‎ (kubr)
• Form I: كَبِرَ‎ (kabira)
  • Verbal noun: كِبَر‎ (kibar)
  • Passive participle: مَكْبُور‎ (makbūr)
• Form II: كَبَّرَ‎ (kabbara, “to make bigger, exaggerate, praise”)
  • Verbal noun: تَكْبِير‎ (takbīr, “increase, exaggeration, praise”)
  • Active participle: مُكَبِّر‎ (mukabbir, “amplifier”)
  • Passive participle: مُكَبَّر‎ (mukabbar, “magnified”)
• Form III: كَابَرَ‎ (kābara, “to treat with disdain, contend with, oppose, renounce”)
  • Verbal noun: مُكَابَرَة‎ (mukābara, “haughtiness, stubbornness”), كِبَار‎ (kibār, “haughtiness, stubbornness”)
  • Active participle: مُكَابِر‎ (mukābir, “haughty, quarrelsome, stubborn”)
  • Passive participle: مُكَابَر‎ (mukābar)
• Form IV: أَكْبَرَ‎ (ʔakbara, “to consider great or important, praise”)
  • Verbal noun: إِكْبَار‎ (ʔikbār, “admiration, deference”)
  • Active participle: مُكْبِر‎ (mukbir)
  • Passive participle: مُكْبَر‎ (mukbar)
• Form V: تَكَبَّرَ‎ (takabbara, “to be haughty”)
  • Verbal noun: تَكَبُّر‎ (takabbur)
  • Active participle: مُتَكَبِّر‎ (mutakabbir, “haughty”)
• Form VI: تَكَابَرَ‎ (takābara, “to be haughty”)
  • Verbal noun: تَكَابُر‎ (takābur)
  • Active participle: مُتَكَابِر‎ (mutakābir)
  • Passive participle: مُتَكَابَر‎ (mutakābar)
• Form X: اِسْتَكْبَرَ‎ (istakbara, “to deem great or important, to be haughty”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِكْبَار‎ (istikbār)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَكْبِر‎ (mustakbir)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَكْبَر‎ (mustakbar)

Nouns and other parts of speech

• كَبِير‎ (kabīr, “great”)
  • كَبِيرَة‎ (kabīra, “great sin”)
  • أَكْبَر‎ (ʔakbar, “greater”)
• كَبْرَة‎ (kabra, “old age”)
• كُبَار‎ (kubār, “very great”), كُبَّر‎ (kubbar)
• كِبْرِيَاء‎ (kibriyāʔ, “grandeur, pride”)
• مُكَبِّرَة‎ (mukabbira, “magnifying glass”)

Proper nouns

• كُبَّر‎ (kubbar) — Kubbar, an Island in Kuwait

Wehr, Hans (1979), “كبر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

ك ب ر

1. Related to being large

Verbs and verb forms

• Form II: كبّر‎ (kabbar, “to enlarge; to exaggerate”)
• Form V: تكبّر‎ (tkabbar, “to boast, be arrogant”)

Nouns

• كبر‎ (kubr, “size”)
• كبر‎ (kabar, “age, adulthood”)

Adjectives

• كبير‎ (kbīr, “large; adult, old”)