< Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic
Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/šabaṭ-
Proto-Semitic
Verb
*šabaṭ-
- to beat, to strike, to hit, to give a blow
- to sweep, to blow, to fly loose, to float (over)
Related terms
- *šabṭ-, *šibṭ- (“stick, rod”)
Descendants
- East Semitic:
- Akkadian: šabāṭum
- West Semitic:
- Central Semitic:
- Arabic: شَبَطَ (šabaṭa, “to cut the skin”) (irregular)
- Northwest Semitic:
- Aramaic: שְׁבַט (šbaṭ) / ܫܒܛ (šbaṭ)
- Canaanite:
- Mishnaic Hebrew: שָׁבַט (šāḇaṭ, “to press the weaving rod, to make the web close”)
- Old South Arabian:
- Sabaean: 𐩪𐩨𐩷 (s¹bṭ, “to beat”)
- Ethiopian Semitic: (with voicedness assimilation)
- Amharic: ዘበጠ (zäbbäṭä, “to beat, to strike”)
- Ge'ez: ዘበጠ (zäbäṭä, “to beat, to strike; to smite”)
- Tigre: ዘብጠ (zäbṭä, “to beat, to strike, to hit”)
- Tigrinya: ዘበጠ (zäbäṭä, “to hit”)
- Modern South Arabian:
- Harsusi: sebōṭ (“to beat”)
- Mehri: səbōṭ (“to beat”), sɔ̄ṭ
- Central Semitic: