ዘነብ

Ge'ez

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ḏanab- (“tail”).

Noun

ዘነብ • (zänäb) (plural አዝናብ (ʾäznab))

tail

Descendants

→ Amharic: ዘነብ (zänäb), ዘለብ (zäläb) (learned)
→ Tigrinya: ዘነብ (zänäb) (learned)

References

Dillmann, August (1865) “ዘነብ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 1054
Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 640a

Tigre

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ḏanab- (“tail”).

Noun

ዘነብ • (zänäb) (plural ዘነንብ (zännänəb), and አዘንብ (ʾäzännəb), and አዘንብት (ʾäzännəbt))

tail

References

Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ዘነብ”, 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 500b
Munzinger, Werner (1865) “ዘነብ”, in Vocabulaire de la langue tigré (in French), Leipzig: T.O. Weigel, page 58
Raz, Shlomo (1983) Tigre grammar and texts (Afroasiatic Dialects; 4), Malibu: Undena Publications, →ISBN, pages 20, 24

Tigrinya

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ge'ez ዘነብ (zänäb)

Noun

ዘነብ • (zänäb)

tail
Synonym: ጭራ (č̣əra)

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