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Amharic
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic ثَمَن (ṯaman).
Noun
[edit]ተመን • (tämän)
- price, rate by which something is remunerated for obtaining it
- threshold, compass, limit e.g. of age
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]References
[edit]- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 962a
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) “ተመን”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN mentions it for Amharic
Ge'ez
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably regularized from Arabic تَنِّين (tannīn).
Noun
[edit]ተመን • (tämän) (plural ተመናት (tämänat), and አትማን (ʾätman))
References
[edit]- Dillmann, August (1865) “ተመን”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 555
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) “ተመን”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
Tigrinya
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably regularized from Arabic تَنِّين (tannīn).
Noun
[edit]ተመን • (tämän)
Categories:
- Amharic terms borrowed from Arabic
- Amharic terms derived from Arabic
- Amharic terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Amharic lemmas
- Amharic nouns
- Amharic terms derived from Aramaic
- Amharic terms derived from Akkadian
- Amharic rare terms
- am:Reptiles
- Ge'ez terms borrowed from Arabic
- Ge'ez terms derived from Arabic
- Ge'ez terms derived from Aramaic
- Ge'ez terms derived from Akkadian
- Ge'ez lemmas
- Ge'ez nouns
- gez:Reptiles
- Tigrinya terms derived from Aramaic
- Tigrinya terms derived from Akkadian
- Tigrinya terms borrowed from Arabic
- Tigrinya terms derived from Arabic
- Tigrinya lemmas
- Tigrinya nouns
- ti:Reptiles