ኵናት

Ge'ez

Alternative forms

• ኲናት (kʷinat)

Etymology

From Akkadian 𒄀 (qanûm).

Noun

ኵናት • (kʷənat) (plural ኵያንው (kʷəyanəw), and ኰያንው (kʷäyanəw), and ኰዋንው (kʷäwanəw), and ኵናታት (kʷənatat), and ኲናታት (kʷinatat))

1. lance, javelin, shorter or generic spear
2. sword
3. arms
4. war

Further reading

• Dillmann, August (1865) “ኲናት”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 870–871
• “ኲናት”, in Ancient Ethiopic TraCES Corpus (of Beta maṣāḥǝft), Hamburg, 2014–2019
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 288b

Tigrinya

Etymology

From Akkadian 𒄀 (qanûm).

Noun

ኵናት • (kʷənat)

1. lance, javelin, shorter or generic spear
2. (figurative) soldiers, army

Further reading

• da Bassano, Francesco (1918) “ኵናት”, in Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray (in Italian), Rome: Casa editrice italiana di C. de Luigi, column 628
• da Bassano, Francesco (1918) “lancia”, in Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray (in Italian), Rome: Casa editrice italiana di C. de Luigi, column 1176