ሐነጅ

Tigre

Etymology

Perhaps directly from Ottoman Turkish قامچی (kamçı), since the Ottoman empire extended to the Abyssinian coast and variation /h/ ~ /q/ is typical for Turkic, and this word in Arabic dialects is restricted to the Levant and an isolated Egyptian Arabic قَمْشَة (ʔamša), however one has also found a Yemeni Arabic قَامِش (qāmiš, “plait of electricity wires”) from the same Turkish word,^[1] which relates to the meaning of a particularly long whip in Tigrē and parallels its anaptyctical second vowel; lost different dialectal forms for this whip word in Yemen or the Ḥijāz are plausible.

Noun

ሐነጅ • (ḥänäǧ)^[2]

long whip

References

^ Behnstedt, Peter, Woidich, Manfred (2012) Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte – Band II: Materielle Kultur (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 100/II) (in German), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 334 and 338, Nr. 269
^ Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ሐነጅ”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)‎^[1], Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 86a

[1] Behnstedt, Peter, Woidich, Manfred (2012) Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte – Band II: Materielle Kultur (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 100/II) (in German), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 334 and 338, Nr. 269

[2] Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ሐነጅ”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)‎^[1], Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 86a

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