ሥራይ

Ge'ez

Etymology 1

Noun

ሥራይ • (śəray) (plural ሥራያት (śərayat))

1. piece of witchcraft, spell
2. healing, medical application
3. pharmacon, medicament

Etymology 2

Noun

ሥራይ • (śəray) (plural ሥራያት (śərayat))

1. Alternative form of ሢራይ (śiray, “a kind of costly vestment”)

References

• 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