እግዚአብሔር
Ge'ez edit
Etymology edit
From Ge'ez እግዚእ (ʾəgziʾ, “lord”) (in the construct state) + ብሔር (bəḥer, “world, region”).
Proper noun edit
እግዚአብሔር • (ʾəgziʾäbḥer)
- (Christianity, Judaism) God
- 1853-1855, August Dillmann, editor, Veteris Testamenti Aethiopici[1], Leipzig, Genesis 1:1:
- በቀዳሚ፡ገብረ፡እግዚአብሔር፡ሰማየ፡ወምድረ።
- bäḳädami gäbrä ʾəgziʾäbḥer sämayä wämdrä.
- In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
References edit
- Dillmann, August (1865) “እግዚአብሔር”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel