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Ge'ez
Etymology
Early borrowing from Aramaic 𐡔𐡒 (šq /śaqq/), which is in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic סַקָּא (saqqā), Classical Syriac ܣܩܐ (saqqā).
Noun
ሠቅ • (śäḳḳ) m (plural ሠቃት (śäḳḳat), and አሥቃቅ (ʾäśḳaḳ), and አሥቃቃት (ʾäśḳaḳat))
- sackcloth
- a coarse fabric such as to make sacks
- a vestment of such a fabric
- a sack
References
- Dillmann, August (1865) “ሠቅ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 247
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 532a
- Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, pages 39–40