كبش

Etymology
A term of cultic significance, borrowed into Arabic from, as shown by the consonantism. The late occurrence of 🇨🇬 also implies Aramaic borrowing. Compare 🇨🇬.

Nöldeke and Fraenkel assumed that 🇨🇬 represented a borrowing from Arabic. This hypothesis was put forth because the /š/ would have been irregular if both the Syriac and Arabic term descended from a shared form with. This idea was thence repeated in Syriac and Mandaic reference works until the 21st century. However, this cannot be correct, since we would have expected a vocalization - rather than  - if it had been borrowed from Arabic. Additionally, the Syriac term was already borrowed as 🇨🇬 in the 5th century.

Instead, the Syriac form is closer to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

A potential cognate outside of Semitic is 🇨🇬. Interestingly, (corresponding to ) can reflect 🇨🇬, close in pronunciation to.

Noun

 * 1) ram, male sheep
 * 2) bellwether
 * 3) chieftain, chief, head, leader
 * 4) battering ram