Blue Nile


The Blue Nile (Amharic: ዓባይ; transliterated: ʿAbbay, but pronounced Abbay; Arabic: النيل الأزرق; transliterated: an-Nīl al-Āzraq) is a river originating at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. The river is called the Abbay in Ethiopia and the al-Bahr al-Āzraq in Sudan.