ነቢይ

Ge'ez

Etymology

From Aramaic נְבִיָּא (n'ḇiyyā). Cognate with Classical Syriac ܢܒܺܝܳܐ, Arabic نَبِيٌ (nabiyun).

Noun

ነቢይ • (näbiyy) m (plural ነቢያት (näbiyat) or ነብያት (näbəyat) or ኖብያት (nobəyat), feminine ነቢይት (näbiyyət))

1. prophet
2. messenger

Related terms

• ነቢያዊ (näbiyyawi)
• አነበየ (ʾänäbbäyä)
• ተነበየ (tänäbbäyä)
• ተነባዪ (tänäbbayi)
• ትንቢት (tənbit)

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “ነቢይ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel
• Jeffery, Arthur (1959) “Ethiopic and South Arabic Contributions to the Hebrew Lexicon by Wolf Leslau”, in Language‎^[1], volume 35, Linguistic Society of America, page 98
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) “ነቢይ”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 385a
• Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎^[2] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 34

Tigrinya

Etymology

From Ge'ez ነቢይ (näbiyy).

Noun

ነቢይ • (näbiy) ? (plural ነቢያት (näbiyat))

1. prophet

References

• da Bassano, Francesco (1918) “ነቢይ”, in Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray (in Italian), Rome: Casa editrice italiana di C. de Luigi, column 448