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Tigre
Etymology
See Arabic ح ب ب (ḥ b b); this Tigre term is likely connected to this Semitic root via a semantic chain of "bosom" → "curved surface, curvature; a swelling" → "curving, winding forth; swelling, protuberating forward".
Verb
ሐበ • (ḥäbbä)
- to snake, to wind oneself, to curve
- ሐቡብ (ḥäbub, “wavy”)
- ሐበት (ḥäbbät, “berry; swelling”) (likely an Arabism)
- ተሓበበ (täḥabäbä, “to be kind”) (Arabism)
- አትሓበበ (ʾätḥabäbä, “to cause to be kind to each other”) (Arabism)
References
- Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ሐበ”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI), Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, pages 79b–80a