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Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Greek Αβησσυνός (Avissynós), from Latin Abissinus, from Arabic الْحَبَشَة (al-ḥabaša). First attested in 1609.
Pronunciation
Noun
Abisyn m pers
- (Middle Polish) Abyssinian (native of Ethiopia)
- Synonyms: (historical) Abisyńczyk, Etiopczyk
- (Middle Polish) pre-Chalcedonian, monophysite Ethiopian Christian
Declension
Attested forms of *Abisyn
References
- Marek Kunicki-Goldfinger (25.03.2020) “ABISYN”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]