ጎር

Ge'ez

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَار (jār). Notwithstanding the different plural pattern, since ʔaKLāM is even more widely used a broken plural in Ethiopian Semitic.

Noun

ጎር • (gor) (plural አግዋር (ʾägwar))

1. neighbour

Related terms

• ተጋወረ (tägawärä, “to be neighbours to each other”)

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “ጎር”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 1184–1185
• Jeffery, Arthur (1959) “Ethiopic and South Arabic Contributions to the Hebrew Lexicon by Wolf Leslau”, in Language‎^[1], volume 35, Linguistic Society of America, page 98
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) “ጎር”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 207b

Tigre

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَار (jār).

Noun

ጎር • (gor) (plural አግዋር (ʾägwar))

1. neighbour

Preposition

ጎር • (gor)

1. near, in proximity to

Alternative forms

• ጎ- (go-)

Related terms

• ትጋወረ (təgawärä, “to be neighbours to each other”)
• ግዋራ (gəwara, “neighbourhood”)

References

• Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ጎር”, 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 592a

Tigrinya

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَار (jār).

Noun

ጎር • (gor)

1. neighbour

Related terms

• ተጋወረ (tägawärä)

Descendants

• → Saho: goor

References

• da Bassano, Francesco (1918) “ጎር”, in Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray (in Italian), Rome: Casa editrice italiana di C. de Luigi, column 824