ሣጹን

Ge'ez

Alternative forms

• ሣፁን (śaṣ́un)

Etymology

Cognate to Tigrinya ሳጹን (saṣun), ሳጽን (saṣən), Amharic ሳጥን (saṭən) of like meaning. Related by Dillmann to Arabic صَانَ (ṣāna, “to preserve, to keep”).

Noun

ሣጹን • (śaṣun) m or f (plural ሣጹናት (śaṣunat))

1. chest, box, casket, coffer

Descendants

• → Arabic: شَاصُونَة (šāṣūna), plural شَوَاصِين (šawāṣīn)

References

• 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