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Ge'ez
Etymology
Unknown. Has been connected to Arabic و ق ب (w-q-b) and و ه ب (w-h-b); perhaps derived from the root of ጋብአ (gabʾä, “to turn, to return; to come back; to enter”) whence also ግብእ (gəbʾ, “cave”), and غُبّ (ḡubb, “bosom of the sea, gulf; depressed terrain”) is also comparable. Passed into Arabic غَبْغَب (ḡabḡab, “a sacrificial stone whither one went for sacrifice”) from probably Old South Arabian.
Noun
ገብገብ • (gäbgäb)
- entrance room, vestibule, atrium
References
- Dillmann, August (1865) “ገብገብ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 1174
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 177b
- Nöldeke, Theodor (1913) “Anzeigen: Deutsche Aksum-Expedition. Hg. von der Generalverwaltung der Kgl. Museen zu Berlin. Bd. IV. Sabaische, griechische, und altabessinische Inschriften. Von Enno Littmann. Mit 6 Tafeln, 1 Karte und 109 Textabbildungen. Berlin 1913. (94 S. Folio.) M. 17.—.”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 67, pages 703–704