In Samburu language which should have been Sambur, Egypt means desert. Khartoum is adulteration of Katoum, meaning "you'll get it." The name Sambur means "white." The man I interviewed who was Sambur claimed his father who passed away last year, had blue eyes.
Perhaps, the intermingling of different communities through acculturation, integration, assimilation and the practices of exogamous marriages and polygamy created linguistic alterations, changes in skin pigmentations, and the adulteration of the studies of etymology and toponymy.
The name Addis Ababa in Ethiopia means "New Flower."
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