አንገብ

Tigre

Etymology

Probably related to ገቦ (gäbo, “side”). Compare አንግብ (ʾängəb, “village, town”).

Noun

አንገብ • (ʾängäb) (plural አነግብ (ʾanäggəb))

1. fundament, tewel, batty
   • 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 9 line 18
   • Enno Littmann, editor (1913), Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume III: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Tigrē Text.‎^[2] (in Tigre), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 308 Nr. 439 line 24
2. (in the plural) glen, kloof, gorge of mountains
   • Enno Littmann, editor (1913), Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume III: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Tigrē Text.‎^[3] (in Tigre), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 360 Nr. 506 line 1
3. (in the plural) country, lands
   • Enno Littmann, editor (1913), Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume III: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Tigrē Text.‎^[4] (in Tigre), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 255 Nr. 344 line 2
   • Enno Littmann, editor (1913), Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume III: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Tigrē Text.‎^[5] (in Tigre), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 264 Nr. 363 line 4

References

• Munzinger, Werner (1865) “አንገብ”, in Vocabulaire de la langue tigré (in French), Leipzig: T.O. Weigel^[6][7], page 45
• Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “አንገብ”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)‎^[8], Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 374b