ጋሜ

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Amharic

Noun

ጋሜ • (gamme)

  1. A kind of strait haircut, clean-shaven save for a circumferent strip at the nethermost part.
  • ጋማ (gamma, “frontlet, headband around the circumference”)

Tigre

Etymology

Compare Arabic قِمَّة (qimma), Akkadian 𒋦 (qimmatum).

Noun

ጋሜ • (gamme) (plural ጋሜታት (gammetat))

  1. frontlet, headband around the circumference
    • 1913, Enno Littmann, editor, Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume III: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Tigrē Text.‎, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 75 Nr. 95 line 16:
      translated into German at Enno Littmann, editor (1913), Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume IV: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Deutsche Übersetzung und Commentar.‎ (in Tigre), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 160
  2. (metonymically) the position of a chieftain in consideration of the fact that he wears such a frontlet
    • 1913, Enno Littmann, editor, Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume III: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Tigrē Text.‎, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 206 Nr. 280 line 5:
      በዲር ፡ ብእምነት ፡ ምን ፡ ገብእ ፤ ወአዜ : ለጋሜ ፡ ምን ፡ ሐደሰ።
      bädir-bəʾmənät-mən-gäbbəʾ;wäʾäze:lägamme-mən-ḥäddäsä.
      Eftsoon he sacks the clan-leader, and now he is the one who freshes the chieftain frontlet.
      also translated into German by Enno Littmann, editor (1913), Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume IV: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Deutsche Übersetzung und Commentar.‎ (in Tigre), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 436
  3. a hairdress of such a shape

Derived terms

References

  • Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ጋሜ”, 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 566b
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