ብር

Amharic

Etymology

Related to Arabic ب ر ء (b r ʔ, “absolution, innocence”), Hebrew בַּר (bar, “clean, pure”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

ብር • (bər) ?

  1. silver
  2. birr (unit of currency)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • → English: birr

References

  1. ^ Leslau, Wolf (1987), “በረ”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, reprinted 1991, 1997 and 2006, pages 106b-107a
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