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Tigre
Etymology
Probably related to ገቦ (gäbo, “side”). Compare አንግብ (ʾängəb, “village, town”).
Noun
አንገብ • (ʾängäb) (plural አነግብ (ʾanäggəb))
- fundament, tewel, batty
- 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 9 line 18
- Enno Littmann, editor (1913), Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume III: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Tigrē Text. (in Tigre), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 308 Nr. 439 line 24
- (in the plural) glen, kloof, gorge of mountains
- Enno Littmann, editor (1913), Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume III: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Tigrē Text. (in Tigre), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 360 Nr. 506 line 1
- (in the plural) country, lands
- Enno Littmann, editor (1913), Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume III: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Tigrē Text. (in Tigre), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 255 Nr. 344 line 2
- Enno Littmann, editor (1913), Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume III: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Tigrē Text. (in Tigre), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 264 Nr. 363 line 4
References
- Munzinger, Werner (1865) “አንገብ”, in Vocabulaire de la langue tigré (in French), Leipzig: T.O. Weigel, page 45
- Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “አንገብ”, 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 374b