ጎር

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Ge'ez

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic جَار (jār). Notwithstanding the different plural pattern, since ʔaKLāM is even more widely used a broken plural in Ethiopian Semitic.

Noun

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ጎር (gor) (plural አግዋር (ʾägwar))

  1. neighbour
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  • ተጋወረ (tägawärä, to be neighbours to each other)

References

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Tigre

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic جَار (jār).

Noun

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ጎር (gor) (plural አግዋር (ʾägwar))

  1. neighbour

Preposition

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ጎር (gor)

  1. near, in proximity to

Alternative forms

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  • ትጋወረ (təgawärä, to be neighbours to each other)
  • ግዋራ (gəwara, neighbourhood)

References

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  • Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ጎር”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)‎[2], Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 592a

Tigrinya

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic جَار (jār).

Noun

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ጎር (gor)

  1. neighbour
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Descendants

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  • Saho: goor

References

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  • da Bassano, Francesco (1918) “ጎር”, in Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray (in Italian), Rome: Casa editrice italiana di C. de Luigi, column 824