ሥራይ
Ge'ez
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editሥራይ • (śəray) (plural ሥራያት (śərayat))
- piece of witchcraft, spell
- healing, medical application
- pharmacon, medicament
Etymology 2
editNoun
editሥራይ • (śəray) (plural ሥራያት (śərayat))
- Alternative form of ሢራይ (śiray, “a kind of costly vestment”)
References
edit- Dillmann, August (1865) “ሥራይ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 245
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 536a