قلب

From قَلَبَ (qalaba, “to turn”). Alternatively, since Proto-Semitic *libb- is reconstructed to mean “heart”, the initial ق could be a phonological insertion to break a biconsonantal cluster and avoid *∅alb or *∅ulb, thus *lb → *∅alb → qalb. See also Arabic لُبّ (lubb), "core, heart, intellect", without q- as well. Other Semitic branches break the *lb cluster by insertion of a vowel between the consonants, not before them, see Hebrew לב (lev), Classical Syriac ܠܒܐ (lebbā), Proto-Afroasiatic *lib-, Proto-Berber *ulβ (and Egyptian jb which lost the initial l-), none employ q- as part of the root.

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/qa.la.ba/

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