ሠቅ

ሠቅ

Ge'ez

Etymology

Early borrowing from Aramaic 𐡔𐡒‎‎ (šq‎ /śaqq/), which is in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic סַקָּא‎ (saqqā), Classical Syriac ܣܩܐ‎ (saqqā).

Noun

ሠቅ • (śäḳḳ) m (plural ሠቃት (śäḳḳat), and አሥቃቅ (ʾäśḳaḳ), and አሥቃቃት (ʾäśḳaḳat))

1. sackcloth
   1. a coarse fabric such as to make sacks
   2. a vestment of such a fabric
   3. a sack

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) , “ሠቅ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 247
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 532a
• Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎ (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, pages 39–40