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Ge'ez
Noun
ጸወን • (ṣäwän) m (plural አጽዋን (ʾäṣwan) or ጸወናት (ṣäwänat) or አጽዋናት (ʾäṣwanat))
- fortress, citadel, stronghold
- Judges 9:46
ወሰምዑ ፡ ኵሎሙ ፡ ሰብአ ፡ ማኅፈደ ፡ ሲቂሞን ፡ ወቦኡ ፡ ውስተ ፡ ጸወነ ፡ ቤተ ፡ በዓል ።- wäsämʿu kʷəlomu säbʾä maḫfädä siḳimon wäboʾu wəstä ṣäwänä betä bäʿal .
- On hearing this, the citizens in the tower of Shechem went into the stronghold of the temple of El-Berith.
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References
- Dillmann, August (1865) “ጸወን”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 1300-1301
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) “ጸወን”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 566b