ማእድ

Unknown. Cognate to Amharic ማእድ (maʾd), ማድ (mad), Tigre ማእድ (maʾəd), Tigrinya መኣዲ (mäʾaddi), መዓዲ (mäʿaddi). A derivation from the accusative of Ancient Greek μαγίς (magís, “kneading trough; small table”), likewise the source of Georgian მაგიდა (magida, “table”) and having a geminate in Sicilian maidda (“kneading trough”), is formally possible; while the geographic steps towards this result are odd, note, just to underline the oddity, the Standard Arabic term from Egypt for the notion of a kneading-trough: مَاجُور (mājūr).

ማእድ • (maʾədd) m or f (plural ማእዳት (maʾəddat))

1. table
2. food, banquet
3. Eucharistic offering

• → Arabic: مَائِدَة (māʔida)
  • Maltese: mejda
  • Moroccan Arabic: ميدة (mīda)
  • → Azerbaijani: maidə
  • → Ottoman Turkish: مائده (maide)
    • → Turkish: maide
  • → Persian: میده (mayda, “a table covered with viande”)

• Dillmann, August (1865) “ማእድ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 197–198
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 323b