01 · Original text
Geʿez
EthiopicAlternative lexical interpretations of one word
Transliterated reading
ʿdb (left-to-right) / bdʿ (right-to-left)
The original letter forms are visible in the published facsimile. The transliterated reading, where present, follows the cited edition.
02 · Translation
English reading
Possibly ‘hard; difficult’ or a word associated with very hard stone; alternatively bdʿ, of uncertain meaning.
Independent English rendering of Drewes’s published French translation or lexical commentary; checked against the cited printed page(s).
Drewes considers both reading direction and etymology unresolved; none of the proposed meanings is secure.