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مَعْجٞابو

maˁgéboʰ (du. maˁgebóti)

basic morphological information

n. (f.)

rump, buttocks
круп, ягодицы
رِدف

Simeone-Senelle–Lonnet 1988-1989:205; CSOL I 488

text examples

aḷ-šker ḷaḷ yaˁáṭom ḥéyhi béne yaˁámer šéreŝ wa-maˁgebóti ‘It is not nice if a person is very fat, if he has got a belly and (big) buttocks’ (field notes)

root

ˁgb 2

etymology

From PWS *ˁagb- ‘rump, buttocks’. An eventual connection to PWS *ˁgb ‘to desire, to be lustfuľ suggests itself, but remains to be substantiated semantically.