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Tigre
Pronunciation
Noun
መቅጠን • (mäḳṭän) (plural መቃጥን (mäḳaṭən))
- back of a beast
- body of man
- tableland; valley margin, valley border
1913, Enno Littmann, editor, Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume III: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Tigrē Text., Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 287 Nr. 403 line 4:ሽዒር፡ወሽርናይ፡ታ፡ሕዳክዋት፡እት፡መቃጥን፡ተሐረሰ።- šəʿir-wä-šərnay-ta-ḥədakwat-ʾət-mäḳaṭən-täḥärräsä.
- Like barley or wheat cultivated by the valley borders is Ḥədakwat.
- translation into German Enno Littmann, editor (1915), Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume IV: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Deutsche Übersetzung und Commentar. (in Tigre), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 600
References
- Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “መቅጠን”, 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 263b–264a