በቅል

Ge'ez

በቅል

Etymology

Borrowed from Sabaean 𐩨𐩶𐩡 (bġl) and that probably from Old Arabic بَغْل (baḡl).

Noun

በቅል • (bäḳl) m or f (plural አብቅል (ʾäbḳəl), and አብቅልት (ʾäbḳəlt))

1. mule

Descendants

• → Amharic: በቅሎ (bäḳlo)
• → Argobba: በቅሎ (bäḳlo), በግሎ (bäglo) (Aliyu Amba)
• → Gafat: ብጭለ (bəč̣əlä)
• → Harari: በቀል (bäḳäl)
• → Tigre: በቀል (bäḳäl)
• → Tigrinya: በቕሊ (bäḳʰli), በቍሊ (bäḳʷli), በቅሊ (bäḳli), ብቍሊ (bəḳʷli)

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “በቅል”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 511