እሳት

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Amharic

እሳት።

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʔiš- (“fire”). Cognates include Aramaic אשתא (ʼešāṯāʼ) and Hebrew אֵשׁ (ʼeš).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈ(ʔ)ɨsat/
  • Hyphenation: እ‧ሳት
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Noun

እሳት • (ʾəsat) m

  1. fire
  2. (figurative) clever person

Synonyms

References

  • Isenberg, Karl Wilhelm (1841) Dictionary of the Amharic language. Amharic and English‎, London: The Church Missionary Society, page 120
  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “እሳት”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
  • Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 3

Ge'ez

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʔiš- (“fire”).

Noun

እሳት • (ʾəsat) m or f

  1. fire

References

Tigre

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʔiš- (“fire”).

Noun

እሳት • (ʾəsat) f (plural እሳታት (ʾəsatat))

  1. fire
    • 1910, Enno Littmann, editor, Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume I: Tales, customs, names and dirges of the Tigrē tribes: Tigrē text‎, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 3 line 26:
  2. firearm
    • 1913, Enno Littmann, editor, Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume III: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Tigrē Text.‎, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 20 Nr. 26 line 5:
  3. hell
    • 1913, Enno Littmann, editor, Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume III: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Tigrē Text.‎, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 92 Nr. 113 line 2:

References

  • Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “እሳት”, 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, pages 363a–b
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