ሆመር

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Amharic

ሆመር

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حُمَر (ḥumar, tamarind).

Noun

ሆመር (homär)

  1. tamarind (fruit and tree)

References

  • d’Abbadie, Antoine (1881) “ሆመር”, in Dictionnaire de la langue amariñña (Actes de la Societé Philologique; 10) (in French), Paris: F. Vieweg, column 6
  • Bulakh, Maria (2016) “Was There a Color Term *ḥmr ‘to be red’ in Proto-Semitic?”, in Babel und Bibel 9. Proceedings of the 6th Biennial Meeting of the International Association for Comparative Semitics and Other Studies, Penn State University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 6–7
  • Leslau, Wolf (1995) Reference grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 20
  • Schweinfurth, Georg August (1893) Abyssinische Pflanzennamen: eine alphabetische Aufzählung von Namen einheimischer Gewächse in Tigrinja sowie in anderen semitischen und hamitischen Sprachen von Abyssinien, unter Beifügung der botanischen Artbezeichnung (Abhandlungen der königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin / Sitzungsberichte St. XXXIII. S. 647) (in German), Berlin: Verlag der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Commission bei Georg Reimer, page 35b

Tigrinya

Noun

ሆመር (homär)

  1. Alternative form of ሖመር (ḥomär, tamarind)