እባብ

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እባብ።

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Etymology

From Arabic حُبَاب (ḥubāb) or cognate to it, as Tigre ሐበ (ḥäbbä) means “to snake”, without this snake-name itself being attested in Tigrē, if this is not an old denominative.

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Noun

እባብ (ʾəbab?

  1. snake

References

  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ሕባብ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 14a
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 89