ኣውጂ

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Tigre

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish آوجی (avcı).

Noun

ኣውጂ (ʾawǧi)

  1. a military rank
    • 1913, Enno Littmann, editor, Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume III: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Tigrē Text., Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 349 Nr. 491 line 13:

Adjective

ኣውጂ (ʾawǧi)

  1. (poetic) genteel
    • 1913, Enno Littmann, editor, Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume III: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Tigrē Text., Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 355 Nr. 500 line 3:

References

  • Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ኣውጂ”, 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 380a–b