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Word "flag" in Oromo

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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, 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

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Word " allaba "

Word:
allaba
Script:
Latin
Etym. family:
*ala

Remarks:
qubee orthography
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Word " bandirra " (="flag")

Word:
bandirra
Script:
Latin
Etym. family:
*band-
Meaning:
flag

Remarks:
qubee orthography
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