በቅል
Ge'ez
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በቅል
Etymology
Borrowed from Sabaean 𐩨𐩶𐩡 (bġl) and that probably from Old Arabic بَغْل (baḡl).
Noun
በቅል • (bäḳl) m or f (plural አብቅል (ʾäbḳəl), and አብቅልት (ʾäbḳəlt))
- mule
Descendants
- → Amharic: በቅሎ (bäḳlo)
- → Argobba: በቅሎ (bäḳlo), በግሎ (bäglo)
- → Gafat: ብጭለ (bəč̣əlä)
- → Harari: በቀል (bäḳäl)
- → Tigre: በቀል (bäḳäl)
- → Tigrinya: በቕሊ (bäḳʰli), በቍሊ (bäḳʷli), በቅሊ (bäḳli), ብቍሊ (bəḳʷli)
References
- Dillmann, August (1865), “በቅል”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 511