ዘደብረ ታቦር

Ge'ez

Etymology

From ደብር (däbr, “mountain”) and ታቦር (tabor, “Tabor”)

Noun

ዘደብረ ታቦር • (zädäbrä tabor)

1. Feast of the Transfiguration, celebrated in the Ethiopic calendar on the 13th of ነሐሴ (näḥäse, “August 7th - September 6th”), i.e., August 19th.

References

• Leslau, Wolf (1991) “ደብር”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 121b