Alternative forms
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Etymology
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From Proto-West Semitic *šawk-. Cognates include Arabic شَوْكَة (šawka).
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /ˈʃok/
- Hyphenation: ሾክ
ሾክ • (šok) m
- thorn
References
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- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ሾክ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
- Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 8