ዐርክ

Ge'ez

Alternative forms

• ዓርክ (ʿark)

Noun

ዐርክ • (ʿärk) (female ዐርክት (ʿärəkt), male plural ዐርካን (ʿärkan), female plural ዐርካት (ʿärkat), common plural አዕርክት (ʾäʿrəkt))

1. friend
2. best man

Derived terms

• ዕሩክ (ʿəruk, “friend”)
• ዐረከ (ʿäräkä, “to be friendly with”)
• ተዓረከ (täʿaräkä, “to be or become friends, to associate”)
  • ተዓርኮት (täʿarkot, “friendship”)
• አስተዓረከ (ʾästäʿaräkä, “to cause to be friends, to reconcile”)

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “ዐርክ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 965
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) “ዐርክ”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 70b