ድርዕ

Ge'ez

Etymology

Compare Arabic دِرْع (dirʕ, “armor, protective coverings, shell”), Tigre ደርዕ (därʿ), Tigrinya ድርዒ (dərʿi), Amharic ዲር (dir), ድር (dər), Soqotri daraḥ (“to put on (a garment)”).

Noun

ድርዕ • (dərʿ)

breastplate, coat of mail, harness

References

Dillmann, August (1865) “ድርዕ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 1096

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