Murray, George W.: An English-Nubian comparative dictionary (London [u.a.]: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1923)

bUtti—dabs

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butti KDM.
s. biittu K. m-xT O.N. friend, partner:
contemporary, fellow countryman.
butti-ci K. boys born on the same
night.
ar. bad!'.
buttu D.
s.
futtu J/. millet.
ham. Bed. biltu,
NIL.
buttab D. small cakes of millet.
Ku. borta.
butul KD.
s.
goat.—gel butul gazelle.
butur Dai.
s.
(Munz.) cat.
nil. Bag. batu : cf. ham.
Haus, budari
smelling cat.
evil-

da KDM.
conj. xe O.N. (and tor Mid. ?) and. xe teas
ham. Tam. d, Haus. da.
usual in O.N., hut da is now only found
in such numerals as dimin da wer-u
K. eleven, dimin dow-u K. twelve.
Cf. sedded tom borci Mid. 21 and
sedded tor uddi 22.
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da D. Mid.
s. land, country.—ar-n da Mid. heaven.
ar. dar.
da KDM.
v.i. (for dar) be, exist.
8. dar.
dab KM.
s. (Burckhardt) iron girdle for cooking.
s. deu.
dab KD.
v.i. daf M., -x^nni O.N. disappear, perish.
ham. Som. daf pass, go
mici dab-os-kbn D. the famine is over.
away ; Ga. dafa, Bed.
—wicir annai-tbn dab-bssin K.
dab run, escape, dib-s
I have lost a stick.—dab-bu be lost.—
dab-ir v.t. cause to disappear, lose,
give away. dab-ir-bs, dab-ir-bs-ir
destroy, slay.
destroy.
dab DM.
s. dabu M. building made of bricks ; brick
wall, room ; brick, tile = tub M.
s. tub, tobbu.
dabal M.
v.t. dawil 7C, tawil D. roll up, roll away,
fold.—Lepsius, Mark xv. 46 gives daba-
udron (for dabal wud-r-on?) he
rolled away.
8. dawil.
dabir Kdr.
s. wound.
dablya M.
s. bead ornament of a room.
dabs K.
8. dafs M. Nile carp. Labes Forskalii.
eg. ar. dabis cf ham.
Copt. TefiT.