ከተበ

From Proto-West Semitic *katab-.

ከተበ • (kättäbä)

1. to write, to jot down
2. to make an amulet with writing on it
3. to incise, to scratch, to prick
4. (horticulture) to inoculate, to graft
5. to vaccinate, to jab
6. (obsolete) to draft, to enlist, to enroll (soldiers or students)

• Kane, Thomas Leiper (1990), Amharic-English Dictionary (in Amharic and English), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 1430

From Proto-West Semitic *katab-.

ከተበ • (kätäbä) (prefix conjugation ይክትብ (yəktəb))

1. to write, to register

• ተከትበ (täkätbä, “to be written”)
• ከታቢ (kätabi, “scribe, draughtsman”)
• ክታብ (kətab, “document; amulet, fetish”)

• Dillmann, August (1865), “ከተበ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 852
• Leslau, Wolf (1987), “ከተበ”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, reprinted 1991, 1997 and 2006, page 297b

From Proto-West Semitic *katab-.

ከተበ • (kätäbä) (prefix conjugation ይኸትብ (yəxätb))

1. to vaccinate
2. to draft, to enlist
3. to make amulets

• ክታብ (kətab, “amulet, fetish”)
• ተኸትበ (täxätbä, “to be vaccinated; to be drafted”)
• ከታቢ (kätabi, “vaccinator”)
• መኽተቢ (mäxtäbi, “vaccination instrument”)

• da Bassano, Francesco (1918), “ከተበ”, in Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray (in Italian), Rome: Casa editrice italiana di C. de Luigi, columns 603–604