እሳት

Amharic

እሳት።

Alternative forms

• (aphetic) ሳት (sat)

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʔiš- (“fire”). Cognates include Aramaic אשתא (ʼešāṯāʼ) and Hebrew אֵשׁ (ʼeš).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈ(ʔ)ɨsat/
• Hyphenation: እ‧ሳት

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Noun

እሳት • (ʾəsat) m

1. fire
2. (figurative) clever person

Synonyms

• (fire): ቃጥሎ (ḳaṭlo)

References

• Isenberg, Karl Wilhelm (1841) Dictionary of the Amharic language. Amharic and English‎^[1], London: The Church Missionary Society, page 120
• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “እሳት”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
• Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 3

Ge'ez

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʔiš- (“fire”).

Noun

እሳት • (ʾəsat) m or f

1. fire

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “እሳት”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 749

Tigre

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʔiš- (“fire”).

Noun

እሳት • (ʾəsat) f (plural እሳታት (ʾəsatat))

1. fire
   • 1910, Enno Littmann, editor, Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume I: Tales, customs, names and dirges of the Tigrē tribes: Tigrē text‎^[2], Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 3 line 26:
2. firearm
   • 1913, Enno Littmann, editor, Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume III: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Tigrē Text.‎^[3], Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 20 Nr. 26 line 5:
3. hell
   • 1913, Enno Littmann, editor, Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume III: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Tigrē Text.‎^[4], Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 92 Nr. 113 line 2:

References

• Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “እሳት”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)‎^[5], Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, pages 363a–b