NODE / 0105attestedClassical Arabic

jabara

TRANSLITERATION jabara

to restore, reunite, set or mend

DATE: Classical Arabic
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FAMILY: Afro-Asiatic / Semitic
CANONICAL KEY: node:15:jabara:attested

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Classical Arabic · 9th century

al-jabr

restoration, completion; an operation in equation solving

SOUND: The Arabic verbal noun jabr is derived from jabara; the definite article al- is prefixed.
MEANING: Restoring, reuniting, or mending is specialized as a mathematical operation.
CHRONOLOGY: The term appears in al-Khwārizmī's 9th-century title.
SCHOLAR: Oxford University Press editors
CONFIDENCE: established

Algebra — Word Originsupportsjabara “reunite, restore”ORIGINAL ↗

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Classical Arabicjabara→Classical Arabic · 9th centuryal-jabrrestoration, completion; an operation in equation solving

SOUND: The Arabic verbal noun jabr is derived from jabara; the definite article al- is prefixed.
MEANING: Restoring, reuniting, or mending is specialized as a mathematical operation.

Oxford University Press editors1 CITATIONEDGE 90 ↗

Algebra — Word Origin · jabara “reunite, restore” ↗

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Classical Arabical-jabr→Medieval Latin · 12th–16th centuriesalgebrarestoration; bone-setting; the mathematical art

SOUND: Arabic al-jabr was adapted into Medieval Latin algebra, retaining the article as part of the word.
MEANING: An operation of restoring a subtracted term—and a title phrase—came to name the mathematical discipline; a bone-setting sense also circulated.

Oxford · MacTutor editors3 CITATIONSEDGE 89 ↗

Algebra — Word History · Arabic al-jabr ↗Algebra — Word Origin · Word Origin ↗Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics: A · ALGEBRA entry ↗

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Medieval Latinalgebra→Present-Day English · 1551–todayalgebraa mathematical discipline of symbolic and structural relations

SOUND: English borrowed the learned form through Medieval Latin and Romance channels, with stress and vowel adaptation.
MEANING: A named mathematical art developed into the broad modern discipline.

Merriam-Webster · Oxford editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 88 ↗

Algebra — Word History · Etymology and First Known Use ↗Algebra — Word Origin · Word Origin ↗

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