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Tigre
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish آوجی (avcı).
Noun
ኣውጂ • (ʾawǧi)
- a military rank
Adjective
ኣውጂ • (ʾawǧi)
- (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