ሕዝብ

• ህዝብ (həzb)

Cognate with Ge'ez ሕዝብ (ḥəzb) and Arabic حِزْب (ḥizb).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɨzb/
• Hyphenation: ሕዝብ

ሕዝብ • (ḥəzb) m (plural ሕዝቦች (ḥəzbočč) or አሕዛብ (ʾaḥzab) or አሕዛቦች (ʾaḥzabočč) or አሕዛቢ (ʾaḥzabi) or አዛቢ (ʾazzabi))

1. people, crowd

• Kane, Thomas Leiper (1990), “ሕዝብ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary (in Amharic and English), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 24

Related to Arabic ح ز ب (ḥ z b).

ሕዝብ • (ḥəzb) m or f (plural ሕዘብ (ḥəzäb) or አሕዛብ (ʾäḥzab))

1. tribe, people, nation
   • 1853-1855, August Dillmann, editor, Veteris Testamenti Aethiopici‎^[1], Leipzig, Genesis 12:2:

     ወእሬስየከ ፡ ሕዝበ ፡ ዐቢየ ፡ ወእባርከከ ፡ ወኣዐቢ ፡ ስመከ ፡ ወትከውን ፡ ቡሩከ ።

     wäʾresyäkä ḥəzbä ʿäbiyä wäʾbarkäkä wäʾaʿäbi səmäkä wätkäwn burukä .

     And I shall make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing.

2. a group of people, mob, crowd, men, inhabitants
   • 1853-1855, August Dillmann, editor, Veteris Testamenti Aethiopici‎^[2], Leipzig, Judges 8:5:

     ወይቤሎሙ ፡ ለሰብአ ፡ ሶኮት ፡ ሀብዎሙ ፡ እክለ ፡ ለሕዝብ ፡ እለ ፡ ምስሌየ ፡ እስመ ፡ ርኅቡ ፡ ወአንሰ ፡ እተልዎሙ ፡ ለዜቤሔ ፡ ወለሴልማና ፡ ነገሥተ ፡ ምድያም ።

     wäybelomu läsäbʾä sokot häbwomu ʾəklä läḥzəb ʾəlä məsleyä ʾəsmä rəḫbu wäʾänsä ʾətälwomu läzebeḥe wäläselmana nägäśtä mədyam .

     And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.

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