ሽል

Amharic

Alternative forms
  • ሺል (šil)

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *šilyat-.

Noun

ሽል • (šəl)

  1. fetus, embryo
  2. conception, gravidation

References
  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 603a

Tigrinya

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *šilyat-.

Noun

ሽል • (šəl)

  1. fetus still in the mother’s womb

References
  • da Bassano, Francesco (1918) “ሽል”, in Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray (in Italian), Rome: Casa editrice italiana di C. de Luigi, column 215
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