በግዕ
Ge'ez
Etymology
Cognate with Amharic በግ (bäg).
Noun
በግዕ • (bäggəʿ) (plural አባግዕ (ʾäbagəʿ))
- sheep
References
- Dillmann, August (1865), “በግዕ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 88b
Tigre
Noun
በግዕ • (bäggəʿ) (plural አባግዕ (ʾäbagəʿ), rarely ብግዕ (bəggəʿ))
- sheep
References
- Littmann, Enno; Höfner, Maria (1962), “በግዕ”, 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 299a
- Raz, Shlomo (1983) Tigre grammar and texts (Afroasiatic Dialects; 4), Malibu: Undena Publications, →ISBN, page 19
Tigrinya
Alternative forms
- በጊዕ (bägiʿ), በግዒ (bägʿi)
Noun
በግዕ • (bägəʾ) (plural ኣባጊዕ (ʾabagiʿ))
- sheep