ሕባብ
Amharic
editNoun
editሕባብ • (ḥəbab)
Harari
editEtymology
editFrom Arabic حُبَاب (ḥubāb) or cognate to it, as Tigre ሐበ (ḥäbbä) means “to snake”, without this snake-name itself being attested in Tigrē, if this is not an old denominative.
Noun
editሕባብ (ḥəbab)
- snake
- 1922, “Harari-Studien”, in Enno Littmann, editor, Zeitschrift für Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete[1], volume 1, page 52 Nr. 114: