𐩱𐩢𐩨𐩦

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Sabaean

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Etymology

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See Arabic الْحَبَشَة (al-ḥabaša)

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Noun

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𐩱𐩢𐩨𐩦 (ʾḥbs² /ʾaḥbūśu/)

  1. Ethiopia, Ethiopians, Abyssines
    • second half of 1st century BCE, Ir 20[1]:
      𐩥𐩱𐩩𐩥𐩥 𐩽 𐩨𐩱𐩢𐩡𐩡𐩣 𐩽 𐩥𐩪𐩨𐩺𐩣 𐩽 𐩥𐩶𐩬𐩣𐩣 […] 𐩽 𐩨𐩬 𐩽 𐩱𐩢𐩨𐩦𐩬
      wʾtww bʾḥllm ws¹bym wġnmm […] bn ʾḥbs²n
      /*wa ʾatawū ba-ʾaḥlālim wa-šabyim wa-ġunmim ban ʾaḥbūśāni/
      And they came with spoils and captives and booty [taken] from the Abyssinians […]
    • second half of 1st century BCE, Ja 576+Ja 577 Ry 535; MaMB 212+MaMB 219[2], line 3:
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      w-nqm ʾḥzb Ḥbs²t w-ḏ-S¹hrtm w-S²mr ḏ-Rydn w-ʾs²ʿb Ḥmyrm
      and he took revenge on the troops of the Abyssinians and those of S¹hrtm and on Śamar ḏu-Raydān and the folk of Ḥimyar
    • 548 C.E., CIH 541 = Sadd Maʾrib 5[3], lines 25–26 and 73–75:
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      w-gmʿw ʾgys²-hmw Ḥbs²t [w-]Ḥmyrm […] w-k-l rʾyw k-ḫny ḍlln ʿly ʾs²ʿbn ʾḏnw l-hm w l-ʾḥbs²-hmw w-ʾḥmr-hm
      and assembled his troops, Ethiopians and Himyarites […] And as soon as he saw that [the plague] wrought sickness upon his tribes he furloughed them, his Abyssines and his Himyarites