bwb / Semitic roots

Examples of words with the root bwb: Bab the.

bwb

Akkadian noun bābu, gate, doorway.

a. Bab, Babism, from Arabic bāb, gate, from Aramaic bābā, from Akkadian bābu;
b. Babylon1, from Akkadian bāb-ili, Babylon, literally "gate of the god" (probably a folk etymology of a pre-Akkadian place name), from bāb, bound form of bābu, gate (ili, genitive of ilu, god; see 'l).
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