እባብ

Amharic

እባብ።

Alternative forms

• ሕባብ (ḥəbab) — archaic

Etymology

From Arabic حُبَاب (ḥubāb) or cognate to it, as Tigre ሐበ (ḥäbbä) means “to snake”, without this snake-name itself being attested in Tigrē, if this is not an old denominative.

Pronunciation

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Noun

እባብ • (ʾəbab) ?

1. snake

References

• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ሕባብ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 14a
• Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎^[1] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 89