ወባ

Amharic

Alternative forms

  • ዎባ (woba)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَبَاء (wabāʔ).

Noun

ወባ • (wäba) ?

  1. fever such as caused by malaria or yellow fever
  2. mosquito, especially malaria mosquito

Adjective

ወባ • (wäba)

  1. skinny

Further reading

  • Kane, Thomas Leiper (1990), “ወባ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary (in Amharic and English), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 1535a
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