ጋሜ
Amharic
Noun
ጋሜ • (gamme)
- A kind of strait haircut, clean-shaven save for a circumferent strip at the nethermost part.
Related terms
- ጋማ (gamma, “frontlet, headband around the circumference”)
Tigre
Etymology
Compare Arabic قِمَّة (qimma), Akkadian 𒋦 (qimmatum).
Noun
ጋሜ • (gamme) (plural ጋሜታት (gammetat))
- frontlet, headband around the circumference
- 1913, Enno Littmann, editor, Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume III: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Tigrē Text., Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 75 Nr. 95 line 16:
- translated into German at Enno Littmann, editor (1913) Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume IV: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Deutsche Übersetzung und Commentar., Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 160
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- (metonymically) the position of a chieftain in consideration of the fact that he wears such a frontlet
- 1913, Enno Littmann, editor, Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume III: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Tigrē Text., Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 206 Nr. 280 line 5:
- በዲር ፡ ብእምነት ፡ ምን ፡ ገብእ ፤ ወአዜ : ለጋሜ ፡ ምን ፡ ሐደሰ።
- bädir-bəʾmənät-mən-gäbbəʾ;wäʾäze:lägamme-mən-ḥäddäsä.
- Eftsoon he sacks the clan-leader, and now he is the one who freshes the chieftain frontlet.
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- a hairdress of such a shape
Derived terms
- ጋሜ-ድባ (gamme-dəbba, “muzzleloader”)
References
- Littmann, Enno; Höfner, Maria (1962), “ጋሜ”, 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 566b