ሣጹን
Ge'ez
Alternative forms
- ሣፁን (śaṣ́un)
Etymology
Cognate to Tigrinya ሳጹን (saṣun), ሳጽን (saṣən), Amharic ሳጥን (saṭən) of like meaning. Related by Dillmann to Arabic صَانَ (ṣāna, “to preserve, to keep”).
Noun
ሣጹን • (śaṣun) m or f (plural ሣጹናት (śaṣunat))
- chest, box, casket, coffer
Descendants
- → Arabic: شَاصُونَة (šāṣūna), plural شَوَاصِين (šawāṣīn)
References
- Dillmann, August (1865), “ሣጹን”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 270–271
- Leslau, Wolf (1991), “ሣጹን”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 537a
- Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 55