ገነት

Amharic

Etymology

From Aramaic גִינְּתָא (ginnəṯā) / ܓܰܢܬܳܐ (gannəṯā), also via Ge'ez ገነት (gännät). Doublet of ጀነት (ǧännät) that came from the same source via Arabic.

Noun

ገነት (gännät) (plural also ገነታት (gännätat))

  1. garden, park, or any luxuriant stead
  2. Paradise

References

  • d’Abbadie, Antoine (1881), ገነት”, in Dictionnaire de la langue amariñña (Actes de la Societé Philologique; 10) (in French), Paris: F. Vieweg, column 857
  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 2005a–b

Ge'ez

Etymology

From Aramaic גִינְּתָא (ginnəṯā) / ܓܰܢܬܳܐ (gannəṯā).

Noun

ገነት (gännät) f (plural ገነታት (gännätat))

  1. garden, park, or any luxuriant stead
  2. Paradise

References

Tigrinya

Etymology

From Aramaic גִינְּתָא (ginnəṯā) / ܓܰܢܬܳܐ (gannəṯā). Doublet of ጀነት (ǧännät) that came from the same source via Arabic.

Noun

ገነት (gännät)

  1. Paradise
  2. or any luxuriant stead

References

  • da Bassano, Francesco (1918), ገነት”, in Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray (in Italian), Rome: Casa editrice italiana di C. de Luigi
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