ሣጹን
Ge'ez
editGəˁəz root |
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ሠ-ጸ-ነ (śä-ṣä-nä) |
1 term |
Alternative forms
edit- ሣፁን (śaṣ́un)
Etymology
editCognate to Tigrinya ሳጹን (saṣun), ሳጽን (saṣən), Amharic ሳጥን (saṭən) of like meaning. Related by Dillmann to Arabic صَانَ (ṣāna, “to preserve, to keep”).
Noun
editሣጹን • (śaṣun) m or f (plural ሣጹናት (śaṣunat))
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Dillmann, August (1865) “ሣጹን”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 270–271
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) “ሣጹን”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 537a
- Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft[1] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 55