ሕምስ

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Tigre

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ḥamṯ-.

Noun

ሕምስ (ḥəməs)

  1. abdomen, the body parts below the belt conventionally hidden of both sexes

References

  • Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ሕምስ”, 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, page 61b
  • Munzinger, Werner (1865) “ሕምስ”, in Vocabulaire de la langue tigré (in French), Leipzig: T.O. Weigel, page 2