ነቢይ
Ge'ez
Etymology
From Aramaic נְבִיָּא (n'ḇiyyā). Cognate with Classical Syriac ܢܒܺܝܳܐ, Arabic نَبِيٌ (nabiyun).
Noun
ነቢይ • (näbiyy) m (plural ነቢያት (näbiyat) or ነብያት (näbəyat) or ኖብያት (nobəyat), feminine ነቢይት (näbiyyət))
- prophet
- messenger
Related terms
- ነቢያዊ (näbiyyawi)
- አነበየ (ʾänäbbäyä)
- ተነበየ (tänäbbäyä)
- ተነባዪ (tänäbbayi)
- ትንቢት (tənbit)
References
- Dillmann, August (1865), “ነቢይ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel
- Jeffery, Arthur (1959), “Ethiopic and South Arabic Contributions to the Hebrew Lexicon by Wolf Leslau”, in Language, volume 35, Linguistic Society of America, page 98
- Leslau, Wolf (1991), “ነቢይ”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 385a
- Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 34
Tigrinya
Etymology
From Ge'ez ነቢይ (näbiyy).
Noun
ነቢይ • (näbiy) ? (plural ነቢያት (näbiyat))
- prophet
References
- da Bassano, Francesco (1918), “ነቢይ”, in Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray (in Italian), Rome: Casa editrice italiana di C. de Luigi, column 448