አማዑት

Ge'ez

Alternative forms

• አምዑት (ʾämʿut)

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *miʕay-. Cognate to Arabic مِعًى (miʕan).

Noun

አማዑት • (ʾämaʿut) pl (plural plural አማዕዋት (ʾämaʿəwat))

1. bowels, entrails

References

• Dillmann, August (1865), “አማዑት”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 207–208
• Leslau, Wolf (1987), Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, reprinted 1991, 1997 and 2006, page 23a