Heaviness, weight, or a burdensome quality, both in a literal and metaphorical sense; refers to physical heaviness, burden, or figurative severity, oppressiveness, or significance. The word is used to describe physical weight, intensity of emotion or situation, or moral and social gravity.

Etymology Root כּבד (k-b-d), meaning 'to be heavy, weighty, honored, burdened.' כֹּבֶד is a noun formation from this root, formed by the pattern that often produces abstract nouns, denoting the quality or state of being heavy, weight, or grievous.

Reflexes  · not yet grouped by proto-form

LanguageWordMeaningSegmentationRoot
Digo kubwa big, large
Kikamba kubwa big, large
Pemba (Kingome dialect) kubwa big, large
Shambala kubwa big, large
Swahili kubwa big, great, important