Source — Wiktionary, "قبر" (qabara / qabr)

• Title: قبر (Arabic root ق ب ر; verb قَبَرَ, qabara, "to bury")
• Author: Wiktionary contributors (unauthored/collaborative)
• Publication: Wiktionary (English-language edition)
• Date: accessed 2026-09-04 (page undated/continuously edited)
• URL: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/قبر
• Type: tertiary / neutral, reference-work stance
• Accessed: 2026-09-04

Extract

• The verb قَبَرَ (qabara, "to bury") derives from the triliteral Semitic root ق ب ر (q-b-r), reconstructed to Proto-Semitic *qabr-, which also gives the ordinary noun قَبْر (qabr, "grave; tomb").
• The page lists cognates across the Semitic family: Hebrew קָבַר (qāḇar) / קֶבֶר (qéḇer); Akkadian 𒀍 (qabrum, "grave"); Classical Syriac ܩܲܒ݂ܪܵܐ (qaḇrāʾ); Phoenician 𐤒𐤁𐤓 (qbr); Ugaritic 𐎖𐎁𐎗 (qbr) — spanning East Semitic (Akkadian), Northwest Semitic (Phoenician, Ugaritic, Aramaic/Syriac), and Canaanite (Hebrew) branches, i.e. effectively the whole ancient Semitic family, not merely Arabic's closest relatives.
• A derived form, مقبرة (maqbara/maqbura, "cemetery"), is reported as itself a loanword source into Persian, Turkish, and South Asian languages.

Gaps

• This page covers the root's Classical/formal senses (burial, grave) directly; it does not cover the colloquial Levantine idiomatic construction ya'aburnee ("you bury me," as a term of endearment) — that construction was not found to have its own English Wiktionary entry (a direct fetch of en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ya'aburnee returned HTTP 404, checked negative).
• No pronunciation/dialect-map data for the colloquial imperfective verb form itself.

Used in

• Ya'aburnee