A more primitive form of دَفَعَ (dafaʕa, “to push, to propel”), and its resultant noun, already formed before Arabic, though Aramaic דפא / ܕܦܐ (dappā, “board”) is believed to derive from Sumerian 𒁳 (DAB, “board”) / 𒁾 (DUB, “board”).
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