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Tigre
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *šabaṭ-.
Verb
ዘብጠ • (zäbṭä) (verbal noun ዝብጠት (zəbṭät), instance noun ዘብጥ (zäbṭ))
- to beat, to hit, to strike
- to shoot
- to strike with the stick to signify a choice, to set apart, to wale
- to beat or strike as on an instrument to play (as Serbo-Croatian svírati)
References
- Barth, Jakob (1893) Etymologische Studien zum semitischen insbesondere zum hebräischen Lexicon (in German), Berlin: H. Itzkowski, page 50
- Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ዘብጠ”, 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 499b–500a