ሆሪ

Tigre

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic هُورِيّ (hūriyy), from Hindustani होड़ी (hoṛī), cognate to Gujarati હોડી (hoḍī).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [hoɾi]

Noun

ሆሪ • (hori) (plural ሀወሪ (häwärri))

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- 1903, Carlo Conti Rossini, “Documenti per lo studio della lingua tigré”, in Giornale della Società Asiatica Italiana‎, volume 16, page 15 line 4 a fine:

References

Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ሆሪ”, 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 21b

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