قباء

Arabic

Etymology 1

From the root ق ب و (q-b-w).

Noun

قِبَاء (qibāʾ) m

  1. interval, interspace, distance
Declension

Etymology 2

From Middle Persian kpʾh (kabāh, garment, cloak).

Noun

قَبَاء (qabāʾ) m (plural أَقْبِيَة (ʾaqbiya))

  1. a kind of garment with long sleeves
    • إِذَا وَسَّعَ اللَّهُ فَأَوْسِعُوا، جَمَعَ رَجُلٌ عَلَيْهِ ثِيَابَهُ، صَلَّى رَجُلٌ فِي إِزَارٍ وَرِدَاءٍ، فِي إِزَارٍ وَقَمِيصٍ، فِي إِزَارٍ وَقَبَاءٍ، فِي سَرَاوِيلَ وَرِدَاءٍ، فِي سَرَاوِيلَ وَقَمِيصٍ، فِي سَرَاوِيلَ وَقَبَاءٍ، فِي تُبَّانٍ وَقَبَاءٍ، فِي تُبَّانٍ وَقَمِيصٍ ـ قَالَ وَأَحْسِبُهُ قَالَ ـ فِي تُبَّانٍ وَرِدَاءٍ‏.‏
      ʾiḏā wassaʿa l-lahu faʾawsiʿū, jamaʿa rajulun ʿalayhi ṯiyābahu, ṣallā rajulun fī ʾizārin waridāʾin, fī ʾizārin waqamīṣin, fī ʾizārin waqabāʾin, fī sarāwīla waridāʾin, fī sarāwīla waqamīṣin, fī sarāwīla waqabāʾin, fī tubbānin waqabāʾin, fī tubbānin waqamīṣin - qāla waʾaḥsibuhu qāla - fī tubbānin waridāʾin.
      When Allah makes you wealthier then you should clothe yourself properly during prayers. Otherwise one can pray with an ʾizār and a ridaʾ, ʾizār and a shirt, ʾizār and a qabāʾ, trousers and a ridaʾ, trousers and a shirt or trousers and a qabāʾ, tubbān and a qabāʾ or tubbān and a shirt. (The narrator added, “I think that he also said a tubbān and a ridaʾ.”)
Declension
Descendants

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1845) Dictionnaire détaillé des noms des vêtements chez les arabes (in French), Amsterdam: Jean Müller, pages 352–362
  • Freytag, Georg (1835), قباء”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 395
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), قباء”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 670
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), قباء”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1000
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