ነቢይ
Ge'ez edit
Etymology edit
From Aramaic נְבִיָּא (n'ḇiyyā). Cognate with Classical Syriac ܢܒܺܝܳܐ, Arabic نَبِيٌ (nabiyun).
Noun edit
ነቢይ • (näbiyy) m (plural ነቢያት (näbiyat) or ነብያት (näbəyat) or ኖብያት (nobəyat), feminine ነቢይት (näbiyyət))
Related terms edit
References edit
- Dillmann, August (1865) “ነቢይ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel
- Jeffery, Arthur (1959) “Ethiopic and South Arabic Contributions to the Hebrew Lexicon by Wolf Leslau”, in Language[1], volume 35, Linguistic Society of America, page 98
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) “ነቢይ”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 385a
- Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft[2], Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 34
Tigrinya edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
ነቢይ • (näbiy) ? (plural ነቢያት (näbiyat))
References edit
- da Bassano, Francesco (1918) “ነቢይ”, in Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray, Rome: Casa editrice italiana di C. de Luigi, column 448