ጸሐፈ
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Ge'ez[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unknown. Cognate to Amharic ጻፈ (ṣafä), Tigrinya ጸሓፈ (ṣäḥafä), Sabaean 𐩮𐩢𐩰 (ṣḥf), Qatabanian 𐩮𐩢𐩰 (ṣḥf). Not used in Minaean, but possibly related to Arabic صَخَفَ (ṣaḵafa, “to dig the ground”).
Verb[edit]
ጸሐፈ • (ṣäḥäfä) (prefix conjugation ይጽሐፍ (yəṣḥäf))
- to write
Related terms[edit]
- ጸሐፈ (ṣäḥäfä)
- ጸሓፊ (ṣäḥafi)
- አጽሐፈ (ʾäṣḥäfä)
- ተጽሕፈ (täṣḥəfä)
- ጽሑፍ (ṣəḥuf)
- ጸሐፍ (ṣäḥäf)
- ጽሕፈት (ṣəḥfät)
- መጽሐፍ (mäṣḥäf)
- መጽሐፍና (mäṣḥäfna)
References[edit]
- Dillmann, August (1865) “ጸሐፈ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 1266–1267
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 552a–b