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Amharic
Etymology
From Proto-West Semitic *katab-.
Verb
ከተበ • (kättäbä)
- to write, to jot down
- to make an amulet with writing on it
- to incise, to scratch, to prick
- (horticulture) to inoculate, to graft
- to vaccinate, to jab
- (obsolete) to draft, to enlist, to enroll (soldiers or students)
References
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 1430
Ge'ez
Etymology
From Proto-West Semitic *katab-.
Verb
ከተበ • (kätäbä) (prefix conjugation ይክትብ (yəktəb))
- to write, to register
- ተከትበ (täkätbä, “to be written”)
- ከታቢ (kätabi, “scribe, draughtsman”)
- ክታብ (kətab, “document; amulet, fetish”)
References
- Dillmann, August (1865) “ከተበ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 852
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) “ከተበ”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 297b
Tigrinya
Etymology
From Proto-West Semitic *katab-.
Verb
ከተበ • (kätäbä) (prefix conjugation ይኸትብ (yəxätb))
- to vaccinate
- to draft, to enlist
- to make amulets
- ክታብ (kətab, “amulet, fetish”)
- ተኸትበ (täxätbä, “to be vaccinated; to be drafted”)
- ከታቢ (kätabi, “vaccinator”)
- መኽተቢ (mäxtäbi, “vaccination instrument”)
References
- da Bassano, Francesco (1918) “ከተበ”, in Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray (in Italian), Rome: Casa editrice italiana di C. de Luigi, columns 603–604