Number: 2142
Proto-Semitic: *libb-
Meaning: heart
Akkadian: libbu OA on [CAD l 164], [AHw 549]
Eblaitic: li-bù /libbu(m)/ [Kr 22; Bl E No. 65]
Ugaritic: lb [DLU 240]
Phoenician: lb [T 155]
Hebrew: lēb [KB 513], lēbāb [ibid. 515]
Aramaic: OFF lb [HJ 561]
Biblical Aramaic: *lēb (with suff. libb-), *lǝbab (with suff. libǝb-) [KB deutsch 1730]
Judaic Aramaic: libbā, lǝbābā, libǝbā (also 'bosom, thought, mind' [Ja 686]); lb, det. läbbā, lybh, pl. lbbyn [Sok 273]
Syrian Aramaic: lebbā [Brock 354]
Modern Aramaic: MAL leppa 'Herz' (suff. lippi) [Berg 52] TUR lēbo 'Heart' [R Ṭūrōyō 116] HRT lebba 'Herz' [J Hert 192] NASS libä 'Heart' [Tser 0116] URM libbǝ 'Heart' [R Urmi 100] ZAKH lǝbba (lübba) 'heart' [R Zakho 108] MMND leb, emph. lebba 'heart' [M MND 505] GZR líbba [Nak 78] AZR libba 'heart' [Garb 317] IRAN *libbā 'il cuore, la mente, lo stomaco' (c. suff. libbú etc.) [Pen 97]
Mandaic Aramaic: liba, lub, lbab (abs., constr.) 'pulp, core, heart, mind' [DM 232, 234]
Arabic: lubb- 'coeur, milieu, noyau, graine' [BK 2 955] (-u- <*-i- before -b?)
Modern Arabic: SYR libbe
Epigraphic South Arabian: SAB lb 'heart' [SD 81]; lbb 'palm-heart' [ibid.]; MIN lb [LM 56]
Geʕez (Ethiopian): lǝbb (also 'mind') [LGz 304]
Tigre: lǝbb [LH 39]
Tigrai (Tigriñña): lǝbbi [Bass 22]
Amharic: lǝbb (also 'belly') [K 71]
Gurage: MUH SOD GOG lǝbb [LGur 373]
Mehri: ḥǝ-wbēb [JM 250]
Jibbali: ubbǝ́tǝ, ɛbbǝ́tǝ [JJ 159] (<*lVbb-ǝt)
Harsusi: ḥe-lbēb [JH 82]
Soqotri: ʔílbib [LS 61], [SSL LS 1465].
According to Leslau, "le ʔ initial est un ʔ prosthétique" [ibid.]; rather a prefix (ʔi- < *ʔa- influenced by -i- of the second syllable?). Note that lbib 'conscience' [LS 228] is likely an Arabism
Notes: Note another form, *libab-, to be reconstructed as common SEM from HBR (where lēbāb was explained by Kuriɫowicz as a historically broken plural in -a- from lēb [Kuriɫowicz 179]), ARM and MSA (probably *libib).
[Fron 47] (*libb- 'cuore' /GEZ,ARB,SYR,HBR,UGR,AKK); [Holma 69]: AKK, ARB, HBR, SYR, GEZ; [KB 513]: HBR, UGR, PHO, ARM, ARB, ESA, GEZ, TGR, AKK; [DLU 240]: UGR, HBR, PHO, ARM, AKK, ARB, ESA, GEZ; [Brock 354]: SYR, ARM, HBR, ARB, AKK, GEZ; [LGz 304]: GEZ, ETH, ARB, ESA, SOQ, HBR, ARM, UGR, AKK; [LS 61]: SOQ, JIB, HBR, ARM, AKK, GEZ, ARB, ESA
