ሢራይ
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Ge'ez[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Aramaic שִׁירָאָה (šērāʾā), שִּׁירָא (šērā, “silk; a kind of silk garment”), ultimately from Chinese 絲 (MC si, “silk”).
Noun[edit]
ሢራይ • (śiray) (plural ሢራያት (śirayat))
References[edit]
- Dillmann, August (1865) “ሢራይ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 263–264
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 536b