ጥልቀት

Amharic

Etymology

Probably cognate with Tigrinya ዑምቆት (ʿumḳot, “depth”), Ge'ez ዕመቅ (ʿəmäḳ, “depth”), Arabic عمق (“depth”), Hebrew עומק (“depth”).

Noun

ጥልቀት • (ṭəlḳät) ?

1. depth, profundity

References

• Leslau, Wolf (1976, 1993) Concise Amharic Dictionary: Amharic-English: English-Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 224a

Ge'ez

Noun

ጥልቀት • (ṭəlḳät)

1. contamination, pollution, impurity, blemish

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “ጥልቀት”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 1215-1216