(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Related to Ancient Greek κάππαρις (kápparis) and Old Armenian կապար (kapar).

کبر • (kabar)

Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “کبر”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “کبر”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎ (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 790b

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