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Amharic
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σάβανον (sábanon).
Noun
ሰበን • (säbän)
- kerchief, miter, scarf
References
- d’Abbadie, Antoine (1881) “ከሎታ”, in Dictionnaire de la langue amariñña (Actes de la Societé Philologique; 10) (in French), Paris: F. Vieweg, column 599
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ሰበን”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 524b
Ge'ez
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σάβανον (sábanon).
Noun
ሰበን • (säbän) m
- kerchief, miter, scarf
- handkerchief, sudary
References
- Dillmann, August (1865) “ሰበን”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 359
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) “ሰበን”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 484b