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Amharic
Etymology
Borrowed from Oromo an-jabaa.
Noun
አንጀባ • (ʾänǧäbba)
- boastful but inane speech, mumbo jumbo
References
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 1244a
Tigre
Etymology
Perhaps from a metathesis of Arabic أَبَق (ʔabaq, “Manilla hemp”).
Noun
አንጀባ • (ʾänǧäbba)
- hemp
- Enno Littmann, editor (1910), Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume I: Tales, customs, names and dirges of the Tigrē tribes: Tigrē text (in Tigre), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 120 line 5
References
- Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “አንጀባ”, 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 374a