Word "flag" in Oromo

Last modified: 2007-10-27 by antónio martins
Keywords: allaba | bandirra |
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Two different, yet quite analogous pages of the Oromo Wikipedia seem to give contradicting information about the word "flag" in Oromo: In the page about Ethiopia it is "bandirra", yet in the page about Oromia it is "allaba". Curiously, both appear to have evident etymologies, from external influence: "bandirra" comes from the large tree rooted at late Latin *"bandarius", either through Italian, Portuguese, Arabic or Swahili, while "allaba" shares a common etym (Arabic?) with unrelated and distant languages such as Kurdish or Chuvash.
António Martins, 15 Aug 2007

Word " allaba "

Word:

allaba

Image:

Script:

Latin

Etym. family:

*ala

Remarks:

qubee orthography

Word " bandirra "

Word:

bandirra

Script:

Latin

Etym. family:

*band-

Remarks:

qubee orthography

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