እባብ
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Amharic[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
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Noun[edit]
እባብ • (ʾəbab) ?
References[edit]
- 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