ባሕር
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Amharic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Arabic بَحْر (baḥr, “sea”).
Noun
[edit]ባሕር • (baḥr) ?
Ge'ez
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Semitic *baḥr- (“sea”). Cognate with Classical Syriac ܒܰܚܪܳܐ, Arabic بَحْرٌ (baḥrun). Brockelmann considers ባሕር a Kontrastbildung to ብሔር (bəḥer).
Noun
[edit]ባሕር • (baḥr) m or f (plural አብሕርት)
References
[edit]- Dillmann, August (1865) “ባሕር”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) “ባሕር”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN