ገነት

Amharic

Etymology

From Aramaic גִינְּתָא (ginnəṯā) / ܓܰܢܬܳܐ (gannəṯā), also via Ge'ez ገነት (gännät). Doublet of ጀነት (ǧännät) that came from the same source via Arabic.

Noun

ገነት • (gännät) (plural also ገነታት (gännätat))

1. garden, park, or any luxuriant stead
2. Paradise

References

• d’Abbadie, Antoine (1881) “ገነት”, in Dictionnaire de la langue amariñña (Actes de la Societé Philologique; 10^[1]) (in French), Paris: F. Vieweg, column 857
• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 2005a–b

Ge'ez

Etymology

From Aramaic גִינְּתָא (ginnəṯā) / ܓܰܢܬܳܐ (gannəṯā).

Noun

ገነት • (gännät) f (plural ገነታት (gännätat))

1. garden, park, or any luxuriant stead
2. Paradise

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “ገነት”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 1176
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 199a

Tigrinya

Etymology

From Aramaic גִינְּתָא (ginnəṯā) / ܓܰܢܬܳܐ (gannəṯā). Doublet of ጀነት (ǧännät) that came from the same source via Arabic.

Noun

ገነት • (gännät)

1. Paradise
2. or any luxuriant stead

References

• da Bassano, Francesco (1918) “ገነት”, in Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray (in Italian), Rome: Casa editrice italiana di C. de Luigi