Number: 2448
Proto-Semitic: *kabŝ-
Meaning: ram
Akkadian: kabsu 'young (male) sheep' NA [CAD k 23], [AHw. 418], kabsatu 'young ewe' [ibid.]. The terms are found in Neo-Assyrian business documents as well as in the vassal treaties of Asarhaddon (Wiseman Treaties 551). Irregular -s- together with the late attestation may point to an Aramaism. However, kabsu is now detected in the late OB letter AbB 9 162:12 (UDU ka-ab-si ḳallūtim 'small male lambs' [AHw. 1565]) which makes such an assumption somewhat less attractive.
Hebrew: käbäŝ 'young ram' [KB 460], kibŝā 'young ewe-lamb' [ibid.]; pB. [Ja. 611]. The masc. form is common in sacrifial contexts but surprisingly unfrequent outside such passages. The fem. form as well as the metathetic variants käŝäb 'young ram' [KB 501] and kiŝbā, kaŝbā 'young ewe-lamb' [ibid.] are rare.
Aramaic: Sam. kbš 'lamb' [Tal 377], kšb id. [ibid. 413].
Syrian Aramaic: kebšā 'vervex' [Brock. 817] (not in [PS] ПРОВЕРИТЬ).
Mandaic Aramaic: kabiš 'ram' [DM 195].
Arabic: kabš- 'bélier' [BK 2 855], [Fr. IV 5], [WKAS k 30], [Lane 2588], [LA IV 338] (cf. [Hommel 235-6]).
Mehri: kábŝ '(male) lamb' [JM 202].
Jibbali: kɔbŝ 'male lamb' [JJ 125], kebŝét 'female lamb' [ibid.].
Harsusi: kabŝ 'lamb' [JH 66].
Soqotri: kobŝ 'bélier' [LS 214].
Notes: Syr. and Mnd. forms are probably Arabisms while the Sam. ones are almost certainly Hebraisms. [Fron. 29]: *kabŝ- 'montone giovane' (Arb., Hbr., Akk.); [KB 460]: Hbr., Arm. (арабизм), Akk., Arb., Soq. (mistakenly quoted as kobš); [LS 214]: Soq., MSA, Arb., Hbr., Akk., Syr.; [Firmage 1152]: Akk., Hbr., Syr., Arb.; [Hommel 235]: Arb., Syr., Akk., Hbr. (according to Hommel, irregular sibilant reflexation in Akk. and Arm. is due to a PS variation *kabŝ/š/s-, which is rather unprobable).
