እብል

Ge'ez

Alternative forms

• አብል (ʾäbbǝl)

Etymology

Unknown, possibly connected to ع ب ل (ʕ-b-l) particularly in the sense of a dog-rose, it being a mountain-plant, and the word for granite, comparing the things said on Hebrew חֹרֶשׁ (ḥóreš, “forest on the mountains etc.”), the lost cognate of which gave rise to the word for the rhinoceros in Ethiopian Semitic.

Noun

እብል • (ʾəbl)

1. jackal, lion

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “እብል”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 3b, he only has አብል (ʾäbbǝl)