ዝምብ

Amharic

ዝምብ።

Alternative forms

• ዝንብ (zənb)

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ḏVb(V)b-. Cognates include Ge'ez ዝንብ (zənb) and Arabic ذُبَاب (ḏubāb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɨmb/
• Hyphenation: ዝምብ

Noun

ዝምብ • (zəmb) m or f by sense

1. fly

References

• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ዝምብ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
• Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 16