ጸወን

Ge'ez

Noun

ጸወን • (ṣäwän) m (plural አጽዋን (ʾäṣwan) or ጸወናት (ṣäwänat) or አጽዋናት (ʾäṣwanat))

1. 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.

Synonyms

• (fort, fortress): ሕጽን (ḥəṣn), ቅልዓ (ḳəlʿa), ቀጽር (ḳäṣr), ዴቤቅ (debeḳ), ጥቅም (ṭəḳm), ጽርሕ (ṣərḥ), ፀወን (ṣ́äwän)

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