ልብን
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Amharic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ge'ez ልብን (ləbn).
Noun[edit]
ልብን • (ləbn)
- storax (Styrax officinalis), in particular the resin thereof)
Ge'ez[edit]
Etymology[edit]
As this is an otherwise absent root in Ethiopian Semitic, a borrowing in the course of incense trade from Arabic لُبْنَى (lubnā) or Sabaean 𐩡𐩨𐩬𐩺 (lbny) of same meaning.
Noun[edit]
ልብን • (ləbn)
- storax (Styrax officinalis, in particular the resin thereof)
Descendants[edit]
- → Amharic: ልብን (ləbn)
References[edit]
- Dillmann, August (1865) “ልብን”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 42–43
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 305b
Categories:
- Amharic terms borrowed from Ge'ez
- Amharic terms derived from Ge'ez
- Amharic lemmas
- Amharic nouns
- am:Ericales order plants
- am:Gums and resins
- Ge'ez terms borrowed from Arabic
- Ge'ez terms derived from Arabic
- Ge'ez terms borrowed from Sabaean
- Ge'ez terms derived from Sabaean
- Ge'ez lemmas
- Ge'ez nouns
- gez:Ericales order plants
- gez:Gums and resins