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אבה
Inherited from Proto-Semitic *ʔabay-. Compare Akkadian 𒁍𒀪𒄿𒌈 (bu-ʾ-i-tum /buʾītu/, “a thing wished, willed, desired”), Arabic أَبَى (ʔabā, “he rejected, refused, was unwilling, unwilling to do otherwise; originally to hold back, to desire to stay or wish to remain”) and the root ء ب ب (ʔ b b, “to prepare to go out for”) in the phrase أَبَّ إِلَى (ʔabba ʔilā, “to long after, to want to go fort
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