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አንጀባ

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Amharic

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Oromo an-jabaa.

Noun

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አንጀባ • (ʾänǧäbba)

  1. boastful but inane speech, mumbo jumbo

References

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  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 1244a

Tigre

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Etymology

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Perhaps from a metathesis of Arabic أَبَق (ʔabaq, “Manilla hemp”).

Noun

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አንጀባ • (ʾänǧäbba)

  1. hemp
    • Enno Littmann, editor (1910), Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume I: Tales, customs, names and dirges of the Tigrē tribes: Tigrē text‎[1] (in Tigre), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 120 line 5

References

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  • Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “አንጀባ”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)‎[2], Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 374a
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