ገና

Amharic

Adverb

ገና • (gäna)

  1. yet not, still not

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek γέννα (génna).

Noun

ገና • (gänna)

  1. Christmas

References
  • d’Abbadie, Antoine (1881) “ገና”, in Dictionnaire de la langue amariñña (Actes de la Societé Philologique; 10) (in French), Paris: F. Vieweg, column 857
  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 1999b–2000a

Tigre

Noun

ገና • (gänna)

  1. Christmas, nativity

Noun

ገና • (gänna)

  1. Alternative form of ጀነት (ǧännät, “Paradise”)

Noun

ገና • (gäna)

  1. Alternative form of ገኖ (gäno, “fell”)

References
  • Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ገና”, 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 586b

Tigrinya

Alternative forms
  • ጌና (gena)

Adverb

ገና • (gäna)

  1. yet not, still not
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