ሕባብ

Amharic

Noun

ሕባብ • (ḥəbab)

1. Archaic spelling of እባብ (ʾəbab, “snake”).

Harari

Etymology

From Arabic حُبَاب (ḥubāb) or cognate to it, as Tigre ሐበ (ḥäbbä) means “to snake”, without this snake-name itself being attested in Tigrē, if this is not an old denominative.

Noun

ሕባብ (ḥəbab)

1. snake
   • 1922, “Harari-Studien”, in Enno Littmann, editor, Zeitschrift für Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete‎^[1], volume 1, page 52 Nr. 114: