ሰሊካ

Ge'ez

Alternative forms

• ሰሊክ (sälik), ሰሊኆት (säliḫot), ሰሊሖት (säliḥot)

Etymology

From Arabic سَلِيخَة (salīḵa).

Noun

ሰሊካ • (sälika)

1. cassia, Cinnamomum cassia syn. Cinnamomum aromaticum

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “ሰሊክ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 325
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) “ሰሊኆት ፡ ሰሊሖት and ሰሊካ ፡ ሰሊክ”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 499a–b