ርግብ
Amharic
Etymology 1
Akin to Tigre እርግብ (ʾərgəb), Tigrinya ርግቢ (rəgbi), Ge'ez ርግብ (rəgb),
Alternative forms
- እርግብ (ʾərgəb)
Noun
ርግብ • (rəgb) ?
- dove, pigeon
- (figuratively) a good-hearted person
Etymology 2
Of the same root as ረገበ (rägäbä), ረገበ (räggäbä, “to become loose or slack; to be gentle; to flutter the wings”), probably from the name of the dove.
Alternative forms
- እርግብ (ʾərgəbb)
Adjective
ርግብ • (rəgəbb)
- slack, sagging, loose
References
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 414a–416a
Ge'ez
Etymology
Akin to Tigre እርግብ (ʾərgəb), Tigrinya ርግቢ (rəgbi), Amharic ርግብ (rəgb).
Noun
ርግብ • (rəgb) f or m (plural አርጋብ (ʾärgab))
- dove, pigeon
References
- Dillmann, August (1865), “ርግብ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 316–317
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 464a