The royal fellow's surname is probably in the context of power and size.

One meaning I forgot to add is that it can be used in the sense of "big"
(although colossus may infer that).  Or "big and powerful"  As in our
U.S. Basketball Player celebrity Kareem Abdul "Jabbar."  As a convert,
he may have chose the name for other reasons.

Tracy Johnson
Measurement Specialties, Inc. 

BT







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> 
> I think I caused the problem re 'break', in omitting the full 
> context of what I remember, which probably should have been 
> 'break apart and put back together', as is a common process 
> in fixing broken bones, and forms the basis of algebra as we know it.
> 
> Don't one of the 'royal' families in the Gulf region go by 
> the name 'Al Jabar' - Kuwait maybe?
> 
> jp
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> This is a follow-up to my bit about the word Algebra.
> 
> Yes I was correct in that the tri-consonant root is j+b+r preceded by 
> Al.  However we were all mistaken as to the meaning of the word.  The 
> root means "to set".  As in to set broken bones.  Which may 
> be were it 
> was inferred the word "break".  Full conjugation follows:
> 
> I jabara = to set
> II jabbara = to set broken bones
> III jabar = to be nice, friendliness
> IV ajbara = to force, compel
> V tajabara = to show, be proud, haughty
> VI (not listed in dictionary)
> VII injabara = to be mended, repaired
> types VIII through XV not listed, but not all types have meanings.
> 
> What we're looking (algebra) for is under conjugation type I:
> 
> 'ilm al-jabara and al-jabri (algebraic) which also means forced.
> 
> Other
> 
> jabraan = forcibly
> 
> jabariya = A sect of Islam that leans toward predestination.  
> Fatalists.
> 
> jabbaar = Colossus, tyrant, almighty, omnipotent, oppressor.
> 
> jabaroot = Omnipotence, power, tyranny.
> 
> jibriya = Pride haughtiness.
> 
> mujbar = Forced, compelled.
> 
> jabir and mujabbir = Bonesetter.
> 
> (A proper name, maybe not related.)
> jibreel = Gabriel.
> (Maybe not to far from related Hebrew gebar, = Mighty, powerful.)
> 
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