ዖበል

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Tigre

Alternative forms

Etymology

Cognate to Tigrinya ዑቦል (ʿubol) of same meaning. Maybe borrowed from Southern Arabic عَبَل (ʕabal, “Calligonum gen. et spp.”), a comparable desert shrub of the same order.

Noun

ዖበል • (ʿobäl)

  1. tamarisk, especially Nile tamarisk (Tamarix nilotica)

References

  • Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ዖበል”, 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, page 469b
  • Munzinger, Werner (1865) “ዖበል”, in Vocabulaire de la langue tigré (in French), Leipzig: T.O. Weigel, page 44
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