ዝምብ

Amharic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ḏubab-. Cognates include Ge'ez ዝንብ (zənb) and Arabic ذُبَاب (ḏubāb).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzɨmb/
  • Hyphenation: ዝምብ

Noun

ዝምብ • (zəmb) m or f by sense

  1. fly

References

  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ዝምብ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
  • Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 16
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