حبش

حَبَش • (ḥabaš) f

1. only used in الْحَبَش (al-ḥabaš)

Back-formation from الْحَبَشَة (al-ḥabaša, “Ethiopia”) due to ideas of getting richer through incense trade. Alternatively variant of حَفَشَ (ḥafaša, “to gather”), which may be illustrated by the same verb in Ge'ez, ሐፈሠ (ḥäfäśä), variating too as ሐበሠ (ḥäbäśä, “to collect”).

حَبَشَ • (ḥabaša) I (non-past يَحْبُشُ (yaḥbušu), verbal noun حَبْش (ḥabš) or حُبَاشَة (ḥubāša))

1. to collect, to earn, to reap

حَبَّشَ • (ḥabbaša) II (non-past يُحَبِّشُ (yuḥabbišu), verbal noun تَحْبِيش (taḥbīš))

1. to collect, to earn, to reap

• Freytag, Georg (1830) “حبش”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 335
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “حبش”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 368a

From Arabic حَبَشْ (ḥabaš, “Abyssinia”) or the root ح ب ش (ḥ-b-š); “to collect”.

• IPA^(key): /ħabaʃ/

حبش • (ḥabaš) m (collective)

1. maize, corn

   Synonym: ذُرة (dura)

Shortening of ديك الحبش (dīk il-ḥabaš, literally “Ethiopian rooster”).

حبش • (ḥabaš) m

1. (uncountable) turkey

Borrowed from Arabic حَبَشْ (ḥabaš, “Abyssinia”), the former name of Ethiopia.

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɦə.bəʃ/
• Rhymes: -əʃ

حَبَش • (habaś) m (Hindi spelling हबश)

1. (historical) Abyssinia (a country in Africa)