በግዕ

Ge'ez

Etymology

Cognate with Amharic በግ (bäg).

Noun

በግዕ • (bäggəʿ) (plural አባግዕ (ʾäbagəʿ))

1. sheep

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “በግዕ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 88b

Tigre

Noun

በግዕ • (bäggəʿ) (plural አባግዕ (ʾäbagəʿ), rarely ብግዕ (bəggəʿ))

1. sheep

References

• Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “በግዕ”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)‎^[1], Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 299a
• Raz, Shlomo (1983) Tigre grammar and texts (Afroasiatic Dialects; 4), Malibu: Undena Publications, →ISBN, page 19

Tigrinya

Alternative forms

• በጊዕ (bägiʿ), በግዒ (bägʿi)

Noun

በግዕ • (bägəʾ) (plural ኣባጊዕ (ʾabagiʿ))

1. sheep