ሥጋ

Amharic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Ethiopian Semitic. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ሥጋ • (śəga) m

1. meat, flesh
2. pulp

Declension

Definiteness forms of ሥጋ

	masculine
indefinite	ሥጋ (śəga)
definite subject	ሥጋው (śəgaw)
definite object	ሥጋውን (śəgawən)
general object	ሥጋን (śəgan)

Possessive forms of ሥጋ (śəga)

		singular	plural	formal
first person		ሥጋዬ (śəgaye)	ሥጋችን (śəgaččən)	—
second person	m	ሥጋህ (śəgah)	ሥጋችሁ (śəgaččəhu)	ሥጋዎ (śəgawo)
	f	ሥጋሽ (śəgaš)
third person	m	ሥጋው (śəgaw)	ሥጋቸው (śəgaččäw)
	f	ሥጋዋ (śəgawa)

Derived terms

• ሥጋዊ (śəgawi)
• ሥጋ በል (śəga bäl)

References

• “ሥጋ”, in Amharic Dictionary‎^[1] (overall work in English), Amharic Teacher

Ge'ez

Noun

ሥጋ • (śəga) m (plural ሥጋት)

1. flesh
2. meat
3. that which is human as opposed to that which is divine
4. that which is carnal, as opposed to that which is spiritual
5. that which is alive as opposed to that which is dead
6. (euphemistic) pudendum, genitalia
7. the living body
8. corpse, cadaver

Related terms

• ምሥጋው (məśgaw)
• ሠገወ (śägäwä)
• ሥጋዊ (śəgawi)
• ሥጋዌ (śəgawe)
• ሥግው (śəgw)
• ትሥጉት (təśgut)
• ተሠገወ (täśägäwä)
• አሥገወ (ʾäśgäwä)

References

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

Tigrinya

Noun

ሥጋ • (śəga) ?

1. alternative spelling of ስጋ (səga, “meat”)