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Amharic
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic وَبَاء (wabāʔ).
Noun
ወባ • (wäba) ?
- fever such as caused by malaria or yellow fever
- mosquito, especially malaria mosquito
Adjective
ወባ • (wäba)
- skinny
Further reading
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ወባ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 1535a