ድርዕ

ድርዕ

Ge'ez

Etymology

Compare Arabic دِرْع‎ (dirʿ, “armor, protective coverings, shell”), Tigre ደርዕ (därʿ), Tigrinya ድርዒ (dərʿi), Amharic ዲር (dir), ድር (dər), Soqotri daraḥ (“to put on (a garment)”).

Noun

ድርዕ • (dərʿ)

1. breastplate, coat of mail, harness

References

• Dillmann, August (1865), “ድርዕ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 1096