አበቢ

Ge'ez

Etymology

Rare, perhaps borrowed from Arabic أُبَاب (ʔubāb).

Noun

አበቢ • (ʾäbäbi)

1. flow, wave

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “አበቢ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 758
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 2b