Amharic

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Etymology

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From Proto-Semitic *mazan-. See Arabic و ز ن (w-z-n) and Tigre ሜዘነ (mezänä).

Verb

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መዘነ (mäzzänä)

  1. to weigh

References

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  • Isenberg, Karl Wilhelm (1841) Dictionary of the Amharic language. Amharic and English[1], London: The Church Missionary Society, page 37
  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 312
  • Leslau, Wolf (1976, 1993) Concise Amharic Dictionary: Amharic-English: English-Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 35

Ge'ez

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Etymology

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From Proto-Semitic *mazan-. See Arabic و ز ن (w-z-n).

Verb

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መዘነ (mäzzänä)

  1. to weigh

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Tigre

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Etymology

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From Proto-Semitic *mazan-. See Arabic و ز ن (w-z-n).

Verb

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መዘነ (mäzzänä)

  1. to weigh
    Synonym: ሜዘነ (mezänä)

References

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  • Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “መዘነ”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)‎[2], Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 138a

Tigrinya

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Etymology

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From Proto-Semitic *mazan-. See Arabic و ز ن (w-z-n).

Verb

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መዘነ (mäzänä) (prefix conjugation ይመዝን (yəmäzn))

  1. to weigh

References

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  • da Bassano, Francesco (1918) “መዘነ”, in Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray (in Italian), Rome: Casa editrice italiana di C. de Luigi, column 119a