Another important nomadic tribe is the Kababish. These inhabit a region suitable for sheep and camel rearing in the semi desert north of Kordofan. They are a synthetic tribe formed from diverse elements by a common way of life which is reflected in their name (in Arabic, kabsh, a ram).
-A History of the Sudan, P.M. Holt and M.W. Daly
Odd that I only recently learned the Arabic word for ram (kabsh, pl. akbaash). I have long known the words for mutton (lahma dhaani), a sheep (ghanam), sheep as a collective plural (kharouf), and a castrated sheep (tiss)- vocabulary that you need when in the souk to buy dinner. I have helped to slaughter sheep and roast them many times while with the Kababish, but mutton-eating alone is not a common enough way of life around which a nomadic tribe can form and roam half the desert. For that you need ibl (camels), not akbaash, to be of the abbala- Sudan’s camel-riding, camel-breeding, camel-owning tribes. As are the Kababish.