ድንግል

Amharic

Noun

ድንግል • (dəngəl) ?

virgin

Ge'ez

Etymology

Connected by Dillmann with Classical Syriac ܕܓܠ‎, Arabic دَجَّ‎ (dajja), دَجَل‎ (dajal), دَقَلَ‎ (daqala) through a general idea of “covering”, “prohibiting access to”.

Noun

ድንግል • (dəngəl) (plural ደናግል (dänagəl))

virgin (female but also male)

Related terms

ተደንገለ (tädängälä)
ድንግልት (dəngəlt, “female virgin”)
ድንጋሌ (dəngale)
ድንግልና (dəngələnna)
ድንግልናዊ (dəngələnnawi)

References

Dillmann, August (1865), “ድንግል”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 1117–1118
Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 137b

Tigrinya

Noun

ድንግል • (dəngəl)

virgin

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