ሕባብ
Amharic
Harari
Etymology
From Arabic حُبَاب (ḥubāb) or cognate to it, as Tigre ሐበ (ḥäbbä) means “to snake”, without this snake-name itself being attested in Tigrē, if this is not an old denominative.
Noun
ሕባብ (ḥəbab)
- snake
- 1922, “Harari-Studien”, in Enno Littmann, editor, Zeitschrift für Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete, volume 1, page 52 Nr. 114:
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