ዘብጠ

Tigre

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *šabaṭ-.

Verb

ዘብጠ • (zäbṭä) (verbal noun ዝብጠት (zəbṭät), instance noun ዘብጥ (zäbṭ))

  1. to beat, to hit, to strike
  2. to shoot
  3. to strike with the stick to signify a choice, to set apart, to wale
  4. 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
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