ሸርቤ

Tigre

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hijazi Arabic شُرْبَة (šurba), from Ottoman Turkish چوربا (çorba) and/or Persian شوربا (šurbâ)

Alternative forms
  • ሽርባ (šərba), ሹርባ (šurba), ሸርበት (šärbät)

Noun

ሸርቤ • (šärbe)

  1. soup
    • Enno Littmann, editor (1913), Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume III: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Tigrē Text.‎ (in Tigre), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 139 Nr. 194 l. 3
      translation into German Enno Littmann, editor (1913), Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume IV: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Deutsche Übersetzung und Commentar.‎ (in Tigre), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 292

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic شَرَّابَة (šarrāba)

Noun

ሸርቤ • (šärəbbe)

  1. a kind of hairdress wherein one part is shaved or at least thinner whereas another protrudes, plaits

References
  • Leslau, Wolf (1982) North Ethiopic and Amharic cognates in Tigre (Supplemento n. 31 al Vol. 42 fasc. 2 (Annali))‎, Napoli: Istituto universitario Orientale, page 73
  • Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ሸርቤ”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)‎, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 212a
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