ኵናት
Ge'ez
Alternative forms
- ኲናት (kʷinat)
Etymology
From Akkadian 𒄀 (qanûm).
Noun
ኵናት • (kʷənat) (plural ኵያንው (kʷəyanəw), and ኰያንው (kʷäyanəw), and ኰዋንው (kʷäwanəw), and ኵናታት (kʷənatat), and ኲናታት (kʷinatat))
- lance, javelin, shorter or generic spear
- sword
- arms
- war
Further reading
- Dillmann, August (1865), “ኲናት”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 870–871
- “ኲናት”, in Ancient Ethiopic TraCES Corpus (of Beta maṣāḥǝft), Hamburg, 2014–2019
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 288b
Tigrinya
Etymology
From Akkadian 𒄀 (qanûm).
Noun
ኵናት • (kʷənat)
- lance, javelin, shorter or generic spear
- (figuratively) soldiers, army
Further reading
- da Bassano, Francesco (1918), “ኵናት”, in Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray (in Italian), Rome: Casa editrice italiana di C. de Luigi, column 628
- da Bassano, Francesco (1918), “lancia”, in Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray (in Italian), Rome: Casa editrice italiana di C. de Luigi, column 1176