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Amharic
Etymology
From Arabic سَيْف (sayf).
Noun
ሰይፍ • (säyf) ?
- sword
Ge'ez
Etymology
From Arabic سَيْف (sayf).
Noun
ሰይፍ • (säyf) (plural አስያፍ (ʾäsyaf), and አስይፍት (ʾäsyəft))
- sword
References
Tigre
Etymology
From Arabic سَيْف (sayf).
Noun
ሰይፍ • (säyf) (plural አሰይፍ (ʾäsäyəf), and አስይፍ (ʾäsəyəf))
- sword
References
- Leslau, Wolf (1982) North Ethiopic and Amharic cognates in Tigre (Supplemento n. 31 al Vol. 42 fasc. 2 (Annali)), Napoli: Istituto universitario Orientale, page 70
- Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ሰይፍ”, 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 196a
- Raz, Shlomo (1983) Tigre grammar and texts (Afroasiatic Dialects; 4), Malibu: Undena Publications, →ISBN, page 19