ጋሜ

Amharic

Noun

ጋሜ • (gamme)

1. A kind of strait haircut, clean-shaven save for a circumferent strip at the nethermost part.

Related terms

• ጋማ (gamma, “frontlet, headband around the circumference”)

Tigre

Etymology

Compare Arabic قِمَّة (qimma), Akkadian 𒋦 (qimmatum).

Noun

ጋሜ • (gamme) (plural ጋሜታት (gammetat))

1. frontlet, headband around the circumference
   • 1913, Enno Littmann, editor, Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume III: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Tigrē Text.‎^[1], Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 75 Nr. 95 line 16:

     translated into German at Enno Littmann, editor (1913), Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume IV: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Deutsche Übersetzung und Commentar.‎^[2] (in Tigre), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 160

2. (metonymically) the position of a chieftain in consideration of the fact that he wears such a frontlet
   • 1913, Enno Littmann, editor, Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume III: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Tigrē Text.‎^[3], Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 206 Nr. 280 line 5:

     በዲር ፡ ብእምነት ፡ ምን ፡ ገብእ ፤ ወአዜ : ለጋሜ ፡ ምን ፡ ሐደሰ።

     bädir-bəʾmənät-mən-gäbbəʾ;wäʾäze:lägamme-mən-ḥäddäsä.

     Eftsoon he sacks the clan-leader, and now he is the one who freshes the chieftain frontlet.

     also translated into German by Enno Littmann, editor (1913), Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume IV: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Deutsche Übersetzung und Commentar.‎^[4] (in Tigre), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 436

3. a hairdress of such a shape

Derived terms

• ጋሜ-ድባ (gamme-dəbba, “muzzleloader”)

References

• Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ጋሜ”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)‎^[5], Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 566b