ገብገብ

Ge'ez

Alternative forms

• ገብገቦ (gäbgäbo), ገበገቦ (gäbägäbo), ግብጋቦ (gəbgabo), ገብጋቦ (gäbgabo)

Etymology

Unknown. Has been connected to Arabic و ق ب (w-q-b) and و ه ب (w-h-b); perhaps derived from the root of ጋብአ (gabʾä, “to turn, to return; to come back; to enter”) whence also ግብእ (gəbʾ, “cave”), and غُبّ (ḡubb, “bosom of the sea, gulf; depressed terrain”) is also comparable. Passed into Arabic غَبْغَب (ḡabḡab, “a sacrificial stone whither one went for sacrifice”) from probably Old South Arabian.

Noun

ገብገብ • (gäbgäb)

1. entrance room, vestibule, atrium

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “ገብገብ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 1174
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 177b
• Nöldeke, Theodor (1913) “Anzeigen: Deutsche Aksum-Expedition. Hg. von der Generalverwaltung der Kgl. Museen zu Berlin. Bd. IV. Sabaische, griechische, und altabessinische Inschriften. Von Enno Littmann. Mit 6 Tafeln, 1 Karte und 109 Textabbildungen. Berlin 1913. (94 S. Folio.) M. 17.—.”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[1] (in German), volume 67, pages 703–704