በገን
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Amharic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare Arabic بَجَل (bajal, “endemic syphilis”).
Noun
[edit]በገን • (bägän)
- redness of the skin of the legs when one has exposed them to the sun during the wet season
References
[edit]- d’Abbadie, Antoine (1881) “በገን”, in Dictionnaire de la langue amariñña (Actes de la Societé Philologique; 10[1]) (in French), Paris: F. Vieweg, column 379
Tigre
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]በገን • (bägän)
- Alternative form of በጀን (bäǧän, “gonorrhoea”)