Word "flag" in Oromo

Last modified: 2025-06-19 by antónio martins
Keywords: bandirra | allaba |
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bandirra

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• Word " bandirra "
• Word " allaba "

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Overview

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, both from external influence: "bandirra" comes from the large tree rooted at late Latin *"banderia", 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 " bandirra "

Word:

bandirra

Script:

Latin

Etym. family:

*band-

Meaning:

flag

Identicals:

1 other wordform

Remarks:

qubee orthography

Word " allaba "

Word:

allaba

Script:

Latin

Etym. family:

*ala

Meaning:

flag (other)

Remarks:

qubee orthography

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