ጻጹት

Ge'ez

Alternative forms

ጻጾት (ṣaṣot), ጻጼት (ṣaṣet), ፃፁት (ṣ́aṣ́ut), ፃፆት (ṣ́aṣ́ot), ጻፁት (ṣaṣ́ut), ጻዖት (ṣaʿot)

Etymology

Compare Ge'ez ፃፄ (ṣ́aṣ́e, “moth, worm”), which is inconclusively connected to Arabic سُوس (sūs, “moth, worm”).

Noun

ጻጹት • (ṣaṣut) m or f (singulative and collective)

gnat
red ant

References

Dillmann, August (1865) “ጻጹት”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 1319
Dillmann, August (1865) “ፃፁት”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 1337
Leslau, Wolf (1991) “ጻጹት”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 564b

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