How is “duhduhb” written properly in Amharic?












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I learned the word "dub-dub" the other day meaning moron in Amharic.



After a couple of searches I found this page which says:




Duhduhb = Moron





I tried having a stab at how it might be written, properly, in Amharic based off of the Alphasyllabary on Wikipedia and came up with something like: ዱዱቧ. But, it seems I'm way off base.



Any ideas?






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    I learned the word "dub-dub" the other day meaning moron in Amharic.



    After a couple of searches I found this page which says:




    Duhduhb = Moron





    I tried having a stab at how it might be written, properly, in Amharic based off of the Alphasyllabary on Wikipedia and came up with something like: ዱዱቧ. But, it seems I'm way off base.



    Any ideas?






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      I learned the word "dub-dub" the other day meaning moron in Amharic.



      After a couple of searches I found this page which says:




      Duhduhb = Moron





      I tried having a stab at how it might be written, properly, in Amharic based off of the Alphasyllabary on Wikipedia and came up with something like: ዱዱቧ. But, it seems I'm way off base.



      Any ideas?






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      I learned the word "dub-dub" the other day meaning moron in Amharic.



      After a couple of searches I found this page which says:




      Duhduhb = Moron





      I tried having a stab at how it might be written, properly, in Amharic based off of the Alphasyllabary on Wikipedia and came up with something like: ዱዱቧ. But, it seems I'm way off base.



      Any ideas?






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          The "uh" here is meant to represent the phoneme /ə/. Nobody can really agree on how to transcribe Ge'ez-script vowels, but I've most often seen it written ä, and this is what Wikipedia uses.



          Thus, the word is dädäb, ደደብ.






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            The "uh" here is meant to represent the phoneme /ə/. Nobody can really agree on how to transcribe Ge'ez-script vowels, but I've most often seen it written ä, and this is what Wikipedia uses.



            Thus, the word is dädäb, ደደብ.






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              The "uh" here is meant to represent the phoneme /ə/. Nobody can really agree on how to transcribe Ge'ez-script vowels, but I've most often seen it written ä, and this is what Wikipedia uses.



              Thus, the word is dädäb, ደደብ.






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                The "uh" here is meant to represent the phoneme /ə/. Nobody can really agree on how to transcribe Ge'ez-script vowels, but I've most often seen it written ä, and this is what Wikipedia uses.



                Thus, the word is dädäb, ደደብ.






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                The "uh" here is meant to represent the phoneme /ə/. Nobody can really agree on how to transcribe Ge'ez-script vowels, but I've most often seen it written ä, and this is what Wikipedia uses.



                Thus, the word is dädäb, ደደብ.







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