ሢራይ
Ge'ez
Alternative forms
- ሥራይ (śəray), ሤራይ (śeray)
Etymology
Borrowed from Aramaic שִׁירָאָה (šērāʾā), שִּׁירָא (šērā, “silk; a kind of silk garment”), ultimately from Chinese 絲 (MC sɨ, “silk”).
Noun
ሢራይ • (śiray) (plural ሢራያት (śirayat))
- a kind of costly vestment
References
- Dillmann, August (1865), “ሢራይ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 263–264
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 536b