ሐብስ

Ge'ez

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَبْس (ḥabs).

Noun

ሐብስ • (ḥäbs)

1. prison, jail

Synonyms

• ሞቅሕ (moḳḥ)

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “ሐብስ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel