ዘበጠ
Ge'ez
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *šabaṭ-.
Verb
ዘበጠ • (zäbäṭä) (prefix conjugation ይዝብጥ (yəzbəṭ))
- to beat, to hit, to strike, to blow
- to chastise, to beat for punishment etc.
- to beat or strike as on an instrument to play, to pluck (as Serbo-Croatian svírati)
References
- Barth, Jakob (1893) Etymologische Studien zum semitischen insbesondere zum hebräischen Lexicon (in German), Berlin: H. Itzkowski, page 50
- Dillmann, August (1865), “ዘበጠ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 1050–1051
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 631–632