ዓለም
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Amharic[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- አለም (ʾäläm)
Etymology[edit]
Likely a borrowing from Ge'ez ዓለም (ʿaläm, “world”). Its plural was also borrowed, as ዓለማት (ʿalämat, “universe”).
Noun[edit]
ዓለም • (ʿaläm) ?
Related terms[edit]
- አለማት (ʾälämat)
- አለማዊ (ʾälämawi)
- አለማዊነት (ʾälämawinät)
- ለዘለዓለም (läzäläʿaläm)
- ለዘላለም (läzälaläm)
- የዘላለም (yäzälaläm)
References[edit]
- Leslau, Wolf (1976, 1993) Concise Amharic Dictionary: Amharic-English: English-Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 120b
Ge'ez[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Aramaic עָלְמָא / ܥܳܠܡܳܐ (ʿāləmā).
Noun[edit]
ዓለም • (ʿaläm) m or f (plural ዓለማት (ʿalämat))
References[edit]
- Dillmann, August (1865) “ዓለም”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 951–952
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 61a–b
- Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft[1] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, pages 37–38
Tigre[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Likely a borrowing from both Ge'ez ዓለም (ʿaläm, “world”) and Arabic عَالَم (ʕālam).
Noun[edit]
ዓለም • (ʿaläm)
References[edit]
- Munzinger, Werner (1865) “ዓለም”, in Vocabulaire de la langue tigré (in French), Leipzig: T.O. Weigel[2][3], page 54
- Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ዓለም”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)[4], Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 452a
Tigrinya[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Ge'ez ዓለም (ʿaläm, “world”).
Noun[edit]
ዓለም • (ʿaläm)
Categories:
- Amharic terms borrowed from Ge'ez
- Amharic terms derived from Ge'ez
- Amharic terms derived from Aramaic
- Amharic lemmas
- Amharic nouns
- Ge'ez terms borrowed from Aramaic
- Ge'ez terms derived from Aramaic
- Ge'ez lemmas
- Ge'ez nouns
- Ge'ez masculine nouns
- Ge'ez feminine nouns
- Ge'ez nouns with multiple genders
- Tigre terms borrowed from Ge'ez
- Tigre terms derived from Ge'ez
- Tigre terms borrowed from Arabic
- Tigre terms derived from Arabic
- Tigre terms derived from Aramaic
- Tigre lemmas
- Tigre nouns
- Tigrinya terms borrowed from Ge'ez
- Tigrinya learned borrowings from Ge'ez
- Tigrinya terms derived from Ge'ez
- Tigrinya terms derived from Aramaic
- Tigrinya lemmas
- Tigrinya nouns