ሚዛን

Amharic

Etymology

From መዘነ (mäzzänä) or from Arabic مِيزَان (mīzān).

Verb

ሚዛን • (mizan)

1. balance, scales

References

• Isenberg, Karl Wilhelm (1841), Dictionary of the Amharic language. Amharic and English‎^[1], London: The Church Missionary Society, page 37
• Kane, Thomas Leiper (1990), Amharic-English Dictionary (in Amharic and English), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 312
• Leslau, Wolf (1976, 1993), Concise Amharic Dictionary: Amharic-English: English-Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 35

Ge'ez

Etymology

From መዘነ (mäzzänä) or from Arabic مِيزَان (mīzān).

Noun

ሚዛን • (mizan)

1. balance, scales
2. Libra

References

• Dillmann, August (1865), “ሚዛን”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 211
• Leslau, Wolf (1987), Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, reprinted 1991, 1997 and 2006, page 379a

Harari

Etymology

From ሜዘነ (mezäna) or from Arabic مِيزَان (mīzān).

Verb

ሚዛን (mizān)

1. balance, scales

References

• Leslau, Wolf (1963), Etymological Dictionary of Harari (University of California Publications: Near Eastern Studies; 1), Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 116b

Tigre

Alternative forms

• ሜዛን (mezan)

Etymology

From መዘነ (mäzzänä), ሜዘነ (mezänä) or from Arabic مِيزَان (mīzān).

Verb

ሚዛን • (mizan)

1. balance, scales
2. a single scale on which a weight is placed
3. plummet

References

• Littmann, Enno; Höfner, Maria (1962), “ሚዛን”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)‎^[2], Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 139a

Tigrinya

Etymology

From መዘነ (mäzänä) or from Arabic مِيزَان (mīzān).

Verb

ሚዛን • (mizan)

1. balance, scales

References

• da Bassano, Francesco (1918), “ሚዛን”, in Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray (in Italian), Rome: Casa editrice italiana di C. de Luigi, column 119a