በቅል

Ge'ez

በቅል

Etymology

Borrowed from Sabaean 𐩨𐩶𐩡‎ (bġl) and that probably from Old Arabic بَغْل‎ (baḡl).

Noun

በቅል • (bäḳl) m or f (plural አብቅል (ʾäbḳəl), and አብቅልት (ʾäbḳəlt))

mule

Descendants

→ Amharic: በቅሎ (bäḳlo)
→ Argobba: በቅሎ (bäḳlo), በግሎ (bäglo)
→ Gafat: ብጭለ (bəč̣əlä)
→ Harari: በቀል (bäḳäl)
→ Tigre: በቀል (bäḳäl)
→ Tigrinya: በቕሊ (bäḳʰli), በቍሊ (bäḳʷli), በቅሊ (bäḳli), ብቍሊ (bəḳʷli)

References

Dillmann, August (1865), “በቅል”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 511

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