ኣንፍ

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Tigre

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʔanp-.

Noun

ኣንፍ (ʾanəfm (in construct also ኣንፉ (ʾanfu), and አንፉ (ʾänfu), plural ኣንፎታት (ʾanfotat))

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    • 1910, Enno Littmann, editor, Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume I: Tales, customs, names and dirges of the Tigrē tribes: Tigrē text, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 266 line 11:
    • 1913, Enno Littmann, editor, Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume III: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Tigrē Text., Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 74 Nr. 94 line 2:
    • 1913, Enno Littmann, editor, Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume III: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Tigrē Text., Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 322 Nr. 466 line 8:

References

  • Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ኣንፍ”, 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 375a