ሚዛን

Amharic

Etymology

From መዘነ (mäzzänä) or from Arabic مِيزَان (mīzān).

Verb

ሚዛን (mizan)

  1. balance, scales

References

  • Isenberg, Karl Wilhelm (1841) Dictionary of the Amharic language. Amharic and English, London: The Church Missionary Society, page 37
  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 312
  • Leslau, Wolf (1976, 1993) Concise Amharic Dictionary: Amharic-English: English-Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 35

Ge'ez

Etymology

From መዘነ (mäzzänä) or from Arabic مِيزَان (mīzān).

Verb

ሚዛን (mizan)

  1. balance, scales
  2. Libra

References

Harari

Etymology

From ሜዘነ (mezäna) or from Arabic مِيزَان (mīzān).

Verb

ሚዛን (mizān)

  1. balance, scales

References

  • Leslau, Wolf (1963) Etymological Dictionary of Harari (University of California Publications: Near Eastern Studies; 1), Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 116b

Tigre

Alternative forms

  • ሜዛን (mezan)

Etymology

From መዘነ (mäzzänä), ሜዘነ (mezänä) or from Arabic مِيزَان (mīzān).

Verb

ሚዛን (mizan)

  1. balance, scales
  2. a single scale on which a weight is placed
  3. plummet

References

  • Littmann, Enno; Höfner, Maria (1962), ሚዛን”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI), Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 139a

Tigrinya

Etymology

From መዘነ (mäzänä) or from Arabic مِيزَان (mīzān).

Verb

ሚዛን (mizan)

  1. balance, scales

References

  • da Bassano, Francesco (1918), ሚዛን”, in Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray (in Italian), Rome: Casa editrice italiana di C. de Luigi, column 119a
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