ዘበጠ

Ge'ez

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *šabaṭ-.

Verb

ዘበጠ • (zäbäṭä) (prefix conjugation ይዝብጥ (yəzbəṭ))

to beat, to hit, to strike, to blow
to chastise, to beat for punishment etc.
to beat or strike as on an instrument to play, to pluck (as Serbo-Croatian svírati)

References

Barth, Jakob (1893) Etymologische Studien zum semitischen insbesondere zum hebräischen Lexicon (in German), Berlin: H. Itzkowski, page 50
Dillmann, August (1865) “ዘበጠ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 1050–1051
Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 631–632

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