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Ge'ez
Etymology
From Arabic قُنْفُذ (qunfuḏ).
Noun
ቍንፍዝ • (ḳʷənfəz)
- hedgehog
- porcupine
References
- Dillmann, August (1865) “ቍንፍዝ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 450
- Dillmann, August (1866) Chrestomathia Aethiopica edita et glossario explanata (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, page 207a
- Leslau, Wolf (1982) North Ethiopic and Amharic cognates in Tigre (Supplemento n. 31 al Vol. 42 fasc. 2 (Annali)), Napoli: Istituto universitario Orientale, page 60
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 434b