ሚዛን

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Amharic

Etymology

From መዘነ (mäzzänä) or from Arabic مِيزَان (mīzān).

Verb

ሚዛን • (mizan)

  1. balance, scales

References

  • Isenberg, Karl Wilhelm (1841) Dictionary of the Amharic language. Amharic and English‎, London: The Church Missionary Society, page 37
  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 312
  • Leslau, Wolf (1976, 1993) Concise Amharic Dictionary: Amharic-English: English-Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 35

Ge'ez

Etymology

From መዘነ (mäzzänä) or from Arabic مِيزَان (mīzān).

Verb

ሚዛን • (mizan)

  1. balance, scales
  2. Libra

References

Harari

Etymology

From ሜዘነ (mezäna) or from Arabic مِيزَان (mīzān).

Verb

ሚዛን (mizān)

  1. balance, scales

References

  • Leslau, Wolf (1963) Etymological Dictionary of Harari (University of California Publications: Near Eastern Studies; 1), Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 116b

Tigre

Alternative forms

Etymology

From መዘነ (mäzzänä), ሜዘነ (mezänä) or from Arabic مِيزَان (mīzān).

Verb

ሚዛን • (mizan)

  1. balance, scales
  2. a single scale on which a weight is placed
  3. plummet

References

  • Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ሚዛን”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)‎, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 139a

Tigrinya

Etymology

From መዘነ (mäzänä) or from Arabic مِيزَان (mīzān).

Verb

ሚዛን • (mizan)

  1. balance, scales

References

  • da Bassano, Francesco (1918) “ሚዛን”, in Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray (in Italian), Rome: Casa editrice italiana di C. de Luigi, column 119a
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