በገን

በገን

Amharic

Etymology

Compare Arabic بَجَل‎ (bajal, “endemic syphilis”).

Noun

በገን • (bägän)

1. redness of the skin of the legs when one has exposed them to the sun during the wet season

References

• d’Abbadie, Antoine (1881) , “በገን”, in Dictionnaire de la langue amariñña (Actes de la Societé Philologique; 10) (in French), Paris: F. Vieweg, column 379

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Tigre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɐ̟ɡɐ̟n/

Noun

በገን • (bägän)

1. Alternative form of በጀን (bäǧän, “gonorrhoea”)