# قبقاب
## Arabic
### Etymology

From the root ق ب ب (q b b), meaning “the side of an animal”, “the belly or abdomen” suggested by Lane to ultimately be onomatopoeic in origin from the sound of a rumbling stomach. It is in this location where a saddle rests, hence derives the sense of a wood suitable for carving and shaping. Related to قَيْقَب (qayqab) and ق و ب (q w b), meaning “to carve, peel, or hollow out wood”. Compare Ge'ez ቆጶን (ḳop̣p̣on) – a Cushitic borrowing –, Oromo kopē, kopʿē, Harari ኩብካብ (kubkab), Tigre ቅረቃብ (ḳəräḳab), Gurage ቈቤ (ḳʷäbe), Beja kobā. Dozy suggests an ultimately Old South Arabian origin, a regional wanderwort.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /qab.qaːb/, /qub.qaːb/

### Noun

قَبْقَاب or قُبْقَاب • (qabqāb or qubqāb) m (plural قَبَاقِيب (qabāqīb))
* patten, clog, chopine

#### Derived terms

* قَبَاقِيبِيّ (qabāqībiyy, “he who crafts such shoes; a family name”)

#### Descendants

* Andalusian Arabic: قبقاب (qabqāb), قوقب (qawqab), قرقب (qirqab)
* Moroccan Arabic: قرقابة (qarqāba)
* → Georgian: ყაყაბი (q̇aq̇abi, “a kind of footwear (for women)”) (obsolete) — Imereti
** → Mingrelian: ყაყაბი (q̇aq̇abi, “a kind of high-heeled footwear”), ყაყაფი (q̇aq̇api) (obsolete)
*** → Abkhaz: а-ҟаԥҟаԥ (a-qʼapqʼap), а-ҟаҟаԥ (a-qʼaqʼap)
* → Ottoman Turkish: قبقاب (kabkab)
** Turkish: kabkab, kapkap
* → Persian: قبقاب (qabqâb)

### References

* Beyene, Taddese, editor (1989), Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, University of Addis Ababa, 1984, volume 2, Addis Ababa: Institute of Ethiopian Studies, page 635
* Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), “قبقاب”, in Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 999
* Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), “قرابقي”, in Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1014, where an occupational قَرَابِقِيّ (qarābiqiyy, “clog-maker”)
* Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), “قرقب”, in Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1023
* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “قرقب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 335
* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “قبقاب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 303
* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1845) Dictionnaire détaillé des noms des vêtements chez les arabes‎ (in French), Amsterdam: Jean Müller, pages 347–349
* Freytag, Georg (1835) “قبقاب”, 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 392
* Freytag, Georg (1861) Einleitung in das Studium der Arabischen Sprache bis Mohammed und zum Theil später zum allgemeinen Gebrauche auch für die, welche nicht Hebräisch und Arabisch treiben‎ (in German), Bonn: Adolph Marcus, page 118, from 112
* Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 438

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic قُبْقَاب (qubqāb).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡubˈɡaːb/, [ɡʊbˈɡaːb]

### Noun

قبقاب • (gubgāb) m (plural قباقيب (gabāgīb))
* patten, clog, chopine