ባሕር

Amharic

Etymology

From Arabic بَحْر (baḥr, “sea”).

Noun

ባሕር • (baḥr) ?

1. sea

Ge'ez

Etymology

From Proto-West Semitic *baḥr- (“sea”). Cognate with Classical Syriac ܒܰܚܪܳܐ, Arabic بَحْرٌ (baḥrun). Brockelmann considers ባሕር a Kontrastbildung to ብሔር (bəḥer).

Noun

ባሕር • (baḥr) m or f (plural አብሕርት)

1. sea, large lake

References

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