𐩱𐩢𐩨𐩦
Sabaean
Alternative forms
- 𐩢𐩨𐩦𐩩 (ḥbs²t /ḥabaśatu/)
Etymology
See Arabic الْحَبَشَة (al-ḥabaša)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʔaħbuːɬu/
Noun
𐩱𐩢𐩨𐩦 (ʾḥbs² /ʾaḥbūśu/)
- Ethiopia, Ethiopians, Abyssines
- second half of 1st century B.C.E., Ir 20:
- 𐩥𐩱𐩩𐩥𐩥 𐩽 𐩨𐩱𐩢𐩡𐩡𐩣 𐩽 𐩥𐩪𐩨𐩺𐩣 𐩽 𐩥𐩶𐩬𐩣𐩣 […] 𐩽 𐩨𐩬 𐩽 𐩱𐩢𐩨𐩦𐩬
- wʾtww bʾḥllm ws¹bym wġnmm […] bn ʾḥbs²n
- /*wa ʾatawū ba-ʾaḥlālim wa-šabyim wa-ġunmim ban ʾaḥbūśāni/
- And they came with spoils and captives and booty [taken] from the Abyssinians […]
- second half of 1st century B.C.E., Ja 576+Ja 577 Ry 535; MaMB 212+MaMB 219, line 3:
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- w-nqm ʾḥzb Ḥbs²t w-ḏ-S¹hrtm w-S²mr ḏ-Rydn w-ʾs²ʿb Ḥmyrm
- and he took revenge on the troops of the Abyssinians and those of S¹hrtm and on Śamar ḏu-Raydān and the folk of Ḥimyar
- 548 C.E., CIH 541 = Sadd Maʾrib 5, lines 25–26 and 73–75:
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- w-gmʿw ʾgys²-hmw Ḥbs²t [w-]Ḥmyrm […] w-k-l rʾyw k-ḫny ḍlln ʿly ʾs²ʿbn ʾḏnw l-hm w l-ʾḥbs²-hmw w-ʾḥmr-hm
- and assembled his troops, Ethiopians and Himyarites […] And as soon as he saw that [the plague] wrought sickness upon his tribes he furloughed them, his Abyssines and his Himyarites