ሚዛን
Amharic
Etymology
From መዘነ (mäzzänä) or from Arabic مِيزَان (mīzān).
Verb
ሚዛን • (mizan)
- balance, scales
References
- Isenberg, Karl Wilhelm (1841) Dictionary of the Amharic language. Amharic and English, London: The Church Missionary Society, page 37
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) Amharic-English Dictionary, 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).
Verb
ሚዛን • (mizan)
- balance, scales
- Libra
References
- Dillmann, August (1865), “ሚዛን”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 211
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 379a
Harari
Etymology
From ሜዘነ (mezäna) or from Arabic مِيزَان (mīzān).
Verb
ሚዛን (mizān)
- 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)
- balance, scales
- a single scale on which a weight is placed
- 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), Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 139a
Tigrinya
Etymology
From መዘነ (mäzänä) or from Arabic مِيزَان (mīzān).
Verb
ሚዛን • (mizan)
- 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