ጻጹት

Ge'ez

Alternative forms

• ጻጾት (ṣaṣot), ጻጼት (ṣaṣet), ፃፁት (ṣ́aṣ́ut), ፃፆት (ṣ́aṣ́ot), ጻፁት (ṣaṣ́ut), ጻዖት (ṣaʿot)

Etymology

Compare Ge'ez ፃፄ (ṣ́aṣ́e, “moth, worm”), which is inconclusively connected to Arabic سُوس (sūs, “moth, worm”).

Noun

ጻጹት • (ṣaṣut) m or f (singulative and collective)

1. gnat
2. red ant

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “ጻጹት”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 1319
• Dillmann, August (1865) “ፃፁት”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 1337
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) “ጻጹት”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 564b