*: (1) suffi 3d pers. sing. masc. (a) nominal,
to words ending in the 3d, 4th, 5th, or 7th
order, e.g. (or mn^R:) “ his
guardian.” “ his master.” n^G)-:
“ his ox.” ( b ) verbal, where the verb does
not terminate in the 2d order, e.g. (JOAlY
G^: “he returned him AP'f'Gfr*: “she
saw him.'" ou^j’UG)': “ thou beatest him.' 1 ''
Ifl'IlTCD': “ I guard, observe him.” (2) eu-
phonism, affixed to the same nouns as the
pronoun, discernible only by the context.
—C : “ I who
cause others to generate, should I indeed
not bring forth 9 saith the Lord.”
©A^*: Eth. s. Amh. Ag-:: son, especially the
second person in the Holy Trinity. Used
also in Christian names of persons; e.g.
©A£: onfA^A:: ©A£:
“Wolda Michael,” “ Wolda Maryam,” &c.
©Ajf: ©A^*: e.g. —: ALI.P: “s/te-ass,”
Job i. 3. —: A.J*: “a bearing woman,” “a
woman in child-birth.” Isa. xxi. 3.
(DAg- : m. C P:s an animal similar to the capricorn
or wild-goat.
®CJh’- s * favour, complaisance. Gen. xx. 13.
©C^: s - the forefoot of animals. Lev. vii. 34.
(Ddflf* 1 '- s. a small pointed cutting instrument,
a lancet.
ahCiai: s. an ass's colt. Zech. ix. 9.
®C^:s. one who reports, brings news ; a pub¬
lisher of news, a reporter ; sensu malo, a tell¬
tale, a story-teller.
®C^|: warka, s. Tigr. and Dankali g(lC :: a
large tree in Abyssinia, similar to the syca¬
more.
®C©C: v a to throw a dart, a javelin, a stone,
a ball, &c.; to bolt, bar. Gen. xxi. 20.
®CP<5 : s. an archer, shooter, thrower.
ay-C®6-: s a throw, cast. Luke xxi. 41 : PK
'1T.JP: —: .PUA: “ about (the distance of)
a stone’s cast."
: v. n. Heb. TV to descend, go or come
down, to alight, inf. od® 1 ^ : descension,
descent.
act. to make descend, to lower.
pass. & refl. to be lowered, brought
down, humbled, to humble oneself, inf. oo6: . • • (DTY:
fttprt: a. to bail, to lend, or sell by bail; to
find bail. Ex. xii. 36.
q> ft: s. (1) a surety; a bail; a broker, mediating
agent between a seller and buyer, between
lender and borrower, who is responsible to
both parties for the bargain or contract
agreed upon. (2) was, name of a singing
bird of the size of a sparrow, whose appear¬
ance and volitation is considered as ominous
to Abyssinian travellers, on their route.
(DA AT: v. a. & n. to be perverse, and to act per¬
versely. Prov. xix. 1.
(DflAT : s * cl perverse, faithless, dishonest person,
double-dealer. Prov. xi. 3. xvi. 28.
(DiTfc: v. a. to limit, border, to confine , to circum¬
scribe, to define, appoint.
To>nv pass, to be limited, &c.
(DlYl: s. limits, borders, confines, frontier.
(Drtg: v. a. to take. Gen. xiv. 11.
TCDfiE. pass, to pe taken.
caus. to cause taking, to take by
another.
(DAg*: s. one who takes.
(D-flT: vid. (D-M"?”.
s. large needle; awl, punch.
: idem.
®*5* < t : s. that which falls. —: “ the
tone, accent, emphasis of a word or speech.”
Gen. xxxiv. 18.
®’J^’*PT*‘. s. the falling, fall, downfal. Jer. vi. 21.
®£-fl: s. harbour. Acts xxvii. 12. Ps. cvii.
31. Heb. vi. 19. for “anchor.”
®£-V: adv. where? Tn-: “ whence ? ” —:
H'iR: “ whither.” Gen. iii. 9. John xiv. 4.
®KH.il : a( l v - 1° this, hither. Vid. ::
adv. thither, to that, after. YlH,.P : — :
“ after this ” “ after that,” “ afterwards.”
®KK • v * a - Ar. ^ to love, to like, to cherish, be
fond of, to be inclined to, to be pleased, to wish.
Ps. xl. 13 : ®^.K-: mg’:
“ be pleased, O Lord, to save me ! ”
T®KK‘- pass. to be beloved, &c.
intens. to join intimately and closely
together, to connect and join into one.
T*P£K : recipr. to love one another ; to be
joined and closely connected one with another.
2 Cor. vi. 16. Eph. iv. 16.
: s. devourer; adj. devouring, absorbing.
^ w f: —: “fish -devourerf name of an unclean
bird, prob. “heron.” Deut. xiv. 12.
©^sp>: and ©'CQ,: (1) imp. fern. sing, of
©**1" go out! go up! (2) s. the external,
exterior part, the outside of any thing; opposed
to "in.: “ the interior.”
d)Rauj^: s. (pro croRauj^rJ a snare, trap,
a net. Rad. Rang:;
® 5 . : improperly Lev. xi. 19: PA.'t’: —: for
PA,^: £* 5 .: “a bat.”
®^:v.n. to be, or become thick, big, fat, volu¬
minous.
trs. to thicken, fatten, make volu¬
minous.
©5.6.9°: adj. thick, fat, big, voluminous,
s. thickness, bigness, voluminousness.
©G.ER’: s. mill, and esp. the lower millstone;
the upper one being called oo^ :; The
initial ®: is substituted for on; and [ti>:
for tlj,: as the regular derivation from
°°5AU,'T : would have been
or contracted uof^etk:: Rad.
O:
O: ain, the twentieth letter of the
Amliaric alphabet. In the Tigre language
it is pronounced with an amplification of the
larynx, and an accompanying depression of
the root of the tongue; just as in the Arabic,
and as it probably was in the Ethiopic, and
partly in the Hebrew. In the Amharic, its
pronunciation is not at all different from that
of A:; hence both letters are, in most in¬
stances, confounded together: in order, there¬
fore, to preserve an orthographical distinc¬
tion for a few cases, the Amharic literati,
having lost the name ‘ ain, 1 call it Q:
1
or the a of the word ain.
: the Greek letter w. Rev. i. 8:
fjgra: “ the Alpha and the Omega."
A9°: s. Heb. Ar. world. In the
Ethiopic, it signifies also an indefinite length
of time, esp. duration of the world, in the
phrase, A t *A9 T1 : “ into eternity,” “for ages”;
A^A9°: ©A £9°: OA^T:
qou^ : . . . q4£-fl:
153 )
03*: • . • CKIWV 0 :
(
“the past day," “a former day." pi. OA
days, Job iii. 6 .
better oou^p: Eth. the year. Amh.
generally A 00 ^::' Mai. iii. 4.
Q 9 U£. : s. Heb. Ar. jyU a column, pil¬
lar. pi. A0 ,T, 9^*:: Is often spelled A. 90 ^*:;
Gen. xxxv. 14. Ex. xxvi. 32.
Also, column on a written page. Vid. :
QOU 0 : and^*ro 0 : Eth. “iniquus fuit,” “in¬
juria affecit.” Amh. to be unrighteous, unjust,
wicked; rebellious, disobedient; to act wickedly,
unjustly; to rebel. Gen. xiv. 4.
s. & adj. wicked, unrighteous, unjust, re¬
bellious, a rebel.
c^crog: and 0 uug: s. wickedness, injustice,
unrighteousness ; rebellion, refractoriness.
qoD^: idem. Jos. xxii. 22 .
qougf: adj. & s. i.q. Deut. ix. 24.
and ^ 000 ^ 1 ^::
s. refractoriness, rebelliousness, rebellion, insur¬
rection ; wickedness, injustice, unrighteousness.
1 Kings xi. 27.
cjuj; s. and Qa{:: fish.
OM>C : ten. Yid.
O u L‘ f T: i-q- and joy, delight,
cheering, joyful exclamation, cf. ‘AllU.Jii: and
Ps. xix. 11.
s. whale. It’ is composed of :
“fish*” and 01II <4: Eth. “whale.”
SO & , C
Ar. and s. a weasel. Lev.
xi. 29.
0 ^q>: Vid.
OC^ - peace.
nakedness. Vid. "A^/P^P::
^£*0: an ^ OC^fl: s * Friday.
OO: Eth. v. n. to ascend, mount, by steps.
Vid. A: s. Vid.
Ar. carneol, cornelian-stone, a gem.
Ezek. xxviii. 13. Vid. cJOfft:
Eth. s. concubine, harlot, pi. 0 ( l! f l J 1 ::
Cant. vi. 9.
S' y ^
^11: Ar. i_>ta c black eagle. Lev. xi. 14.
19’11/P: s. Eth. “ custos.” Amh. ak’abit,
female miller, title and office of an old woman
who has to grind the corn for the holy com¬
munion bread.
U'PII^P: and s. Eth. 0*P r fl: idr
a precipice, precipitous declivity, steep, declivity
of a mountain or hill. Vid. A*Pn*P::
2 Chr. xx. 16.
Ar. s. pie, magpie. Lev. xi. 18.
Isa. xxxiv. 11. Zeph. ii. 14.
0*0.- Ex. xii. 22. a handful, a bunch.
OflcJ/P: adj. Hebrew, hebraic. pi. O'fl^.Qp
r*: Hebrews. Gen. xl. 15.
Gr. ifipoCiVTi, the Hebrew language.
Luke xxiii. 38.
onp: Eth. “ magnum esse vel fieri.” Amh.
non occ.
A0II P: and contr. qnP: to enlarge, extol,
celebrate. Nahum i. 15.
TO IIP: and J’flP: to be magnified, refl. to
magnify oneself, to be puffed up, haughty,
proud. Num. xvi. 3.
Afl;MlP: caus. to inflate with pride, to puff
up, make proud. Rom. xi. 20. Hos. xiii. 6.
On*£: adj. On-.Pl: and OIPP’^F: pi. proud,
haughty, arrogant, overbearing; vain, ambi¬
tious, puffed up, self-conceited. Ps. cxix. 51,
69, 78.
Ar. ^Lsi-Lc a species of eagles. Lev. xi. 13.
OiT: v. a. i.q. AIT::
01T*"■ pi. AOfT* - :: (1) gem. (2) pearl. Gen.
ii. 12. Ex. xxviii. 12.
01T4/P: s. Eth. OT '- c. derivv. Vid. A®*!*::
0®'*P ; t’: s. knowledge. Vid. ’XCD'‘| > ' ? r::
s. a pit; well; and, in a very few
instances, a necessary. With the latter signi¬
fication it is distinguished from : 9°
because the latter is so small, that it
serves only for a few occasions, whereas the
former can be used for a long time.
UH»TI: south-east.
OH/H: Eth. adj. Heb. IVlV Ar.jj^c mighty,
strong, powerful. Gen. xlix. 24.
S ^ x
OP^*: Ar. the Orion, Capella, a constella¬
tion. Job ix. 9.
and UJBTi: s. Heb. Ar. the
eye ; meton. fountain. Gen. iii. 5. xiii. 10.
«%£V- “ a little hole dug in the
ground and used for a water-closet.” :
: “a trellis,” “grate.”
“hog-beans.” Tigr. Jtri't’: “amo¬
ment,” “the twinkling of an eye.”
TVlH,: ain taccaze, the fountain of the river
Taccaze.
Isa. x. 26. The Abyssinian translator
mistook for ^ in the Arabic Version,
abac “his rod”; instead of which he read
alLc which he could not make out, and there¬
fore gave the same mistaken word with
Amharic letters.
0£: s. debt, money or property due on any
account. Ex. xxi. 22 : 0£: in : “to con¬
tract or incur debts. " 0£:Yl: adj. unchaste, lewd, debauched, whorish.
H^g: v n. to be related, kin, cognate.
'THtrog: idem. Ruth ii. 1.
j-ftroj^*: s. relationship, affinity, kindred; a rela¬
tion, kinsman, kinswoman, relative, affianced.
'H9 n ,R*: s. relationship, affinity, family, genus,
species.
s. idem. Jer. xxxii. 7.
v. a. Eth. HCO : Tigr. Heb. SHI
to sow seed. inf. ou*H : the sowing, the
seed. Gen. viii. 22.
■fH&: pass, to be sown.
AH6.: caus. to cause or order sowing.
H6: s. a sower , seedsman.
HC : HCO: and HCX" Eth. HCO" Heb.
^“VT Ar. gjj seed. Ps. xxii. 30.
adv. to-day, now, at present. Gen. iv. 14.
xiv. 3.
HO s. Isa. xxxiv. 14. zar, name of a sort of
demons or genii, to whose influence the peo¬
ple of Shoa and the Gallas ascribe many
changes in man’s bodily constitution and
general welfare; such as, health and disease,
pregnancy, birth, death, change of weather,
success or disappointment in several under¬
takings, &c. They believe that these invisible
Beings are eighty-eight in number, and
divided into two equal parties; forty-four
of them being united under one Chief, called
Warrar (®£C) ; and the other forty-four
under another Chief, whose name is Mama
(orjaij;). In Shoa, these Zars are wor¬
shipped, we were told, by all those who are
in the habit of smoking tobacco, except
foreigners; and we persuaded ourselves that
that very custom is, by those Shoa people who
follow it, observed in honour of those imagi¬
nary Beings. After having witnessed an
extraordinary instance of Zarolatry in our
own house, where we saw an otherwise in¬
telligent and respectable woman alternately
smoking and praying to the Zars with great
vehemence until she was mad, and then kill¬
ing a hen, whose brain she ate and became
quiet again;—after this, I say, we inquired
into several instances where we met with
s smokers, and found that they all were wor¬
shippers of the Zars. In the state of phrensy,
into which they work themselves by vehe¬
ment smoking, praying, and shaking of the
head, their language alters, so as to call every
thing by names which are known only to
Zar-worshippers. A remarkable proof of
the deadness of Abyssinian Christianity, not
being able to overcome Paganism so gross
and degrading!
v. n. Eth. H^C" Ar.^lj to go round, to
turn, to revolve.
trs. to make go round, to turn, to wind
round, to revolve.
s * *
HW.: Ar. j fragments of sweet flag. Cant,
iv. 14.
: s the turning, going round, a round, cir¬
cumvention. trop. the loitering about. 2 Thess.
iii. 11.
H s. surrounding place or country; en¬
virons ; a round-about way; a turn ; a circle.
Gen. xiii. 10. —: “the tropical
circle, ” “ a tropic.” Geogr.
HO: v.a. Tigr.HC’I^” to spread, extend,
ft HO:*- - HH.R-:
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'H-fl£\£: • • . H^C:
distend, inf. ODff^f:- “the spreading,”
“extension.” Gen. iii. 22: £HC
3a: “ he will spread his hand.” PCDTL A ■
the propagation (extension,
promulgation) of the Gospel.”
JVHO: trs. to cause spreading, extension, &c.
THO = pass, to be spread, &c. refl. to spread,
extend oneself.
idem. Job iii. 13: £4n: T.H,:
TH 6 ^: 149°: -IIP.: UlCU’* “ this
time I should have lain quietly extended."
■HCIS.: s * ornament .for the neck. 1 Peter
iii. 3. Judges viii. 21.
v. a. to pillage, to plunder. 1 Chron.
xiv. 14.
7kH£<4.: caus. to cause or order plundering.
pass, to be plundered, pillaged.
s. the pillaging, plundering, sacking, rob¬
bing ; booty , prey, spoil. Isa. xxxiii. 23.
HC£= s. border, seam; esp. fringes. Ex.
xxviii. 32.
part.'of lowness. —: ftA: to stoop, bow
oneself down. —: ftg : to bow another, to
bend, to make stoop, to depress. Gen. xlix. 15.
^ 0 /
Ar. c_i; “lanugo,” soft and tender
hair on the skin. Lev. xiii. 30.
•H^: s. lowness, stooping; low ground or
country. Rom. viii. 39. Ezek. vi. 3.
HP: s. cloth interwoven with gold or silver
threads. (DC*** 1 —= “ cloth interwoven with
gold thread .” Ex. xxv. 4. 2 Sam. i. 24.
s. zebra, al. PPJ?: ftUjP: “wildass.”
S' ^
HflCUf: Ar. chrysolite or topaz, a
gem. Ex. xxviii. 17.
Hn.11: s. Ar. Germ, “zibeben,” raisins.
Num. vi. 3.
H flT: v. a. to deride, laugh at. Lud.
HfVT: s. derision.
HnHR: v.a. to trouble, annoy, to vex.
HILJ?: s. a staff, a pole. 1 Chron. xx. 5.
& s*
H Ar. dpj pi. of Sjj butter f Num. xxi. 28.
w ^
HH^: s. Ar. jb; civet, mid civet- cat, a native
esp. of Narea. al. TC?"
: s. a small earthen dish or plate. Isa.
Ixv. 4.
■HTt: s. black and coarse woollen cloth. Shoa.
al.
Eth.ft^: —: “Book of Numbers .”
RP: Eth. s. (1) messenger. (2) message. (3)
history. (4) report. (5) tale, story. —: ou
TO A: “ history of days.” Ethiopic title of
the “Books of Chronicles.” Rad. HJEAfl):
Eth. “nunciavit.”
Hliro: and Hill: the soft fl: interchanging
with its cognate ou; v. impers. to rain.
ftHltro: trs. to cause raining. Gen. xix. 24.
'HP9 n : s. rain.
"HPC : s. Kr. Jjj girdle, belt. Isa. iii. 24. Acts
xxi. 11.
HMl: ig-Hioo::
ftHin : to cause raining. Gen. ii. 5.
'HP'fl: s. i.q. TIP9°::
■Hill: and 'H9 D 'I1: s.Tigr. Jfr'iJC.P" a fly,
gnat. Ex. viii. 21.
HinA: v. n. to be inclined, to incline, to be dis¬
posed to. Gen. vi. 5. Luke xxiv. 29.
ftHlflA: trs. to incline, to bend, dispose to..
Gen. xxiv. 14.
Hin,A: Ar. s. ifjjJj a basket. Gen. xl. 16.
■Hfjf; Ar. sij pi. jtj ) properly, fire-wood,
from which, by attrition with its fellow, fire
is elicited; commonly, steel for striking fire ;
firelock.
HIJ^: post-positive particle, used (1) as a
particle of relation with nouns and pronouns,
signifying, in connexion with a preceding
preposition, Yl: or f|: with, by ; e.g. flftTR
ftTlrh,C : “ with. God.” John i. 1 :
better than’h’ftTH.ft'flfoC from.
God.” Gen. xxiv. 50. Lev. x. 2. fllLT:
H'l.C’: “by or near the house.”
(2) as a conjunction, that, to, in order that,
in order to, &c.; e.g. £crurr|: H'iJC 1 “that
he may come.”
s. venomous serpent. Ps. lxxiv. 14. Rev.
xx. 2.
adv. this present year .
• • HTn^-. ( 158 ) •. HI^J:
*Hlg^: to fetter, to chain.
THlg^ = pass, to he fettered or chained.
2 Sam. iii. 34.
TlTlg'C 1 (1) n. pr. Zindjero, name of a king¬
dom to the South of Abyssinia, whose inha¬
bitants are Pagans, but not, it seems, wholely
destitute of civilization. (2) s. monkey, ape.
P — :OT?nC: a certain species of wood.
P — :(D^: “monkey’s water,” name of a
river in Shoa-Meda.
G
Tng-nC: and 'Hlg-'flA: s. Ar. JW:
ginger, is a product of the southern and
western countries of Abyssinia.
M?: v.n. Eth. HllO: to stammer ; to talk
foolishly; to faint, to become confused; to
forget; to loose one's senses, to become mad.
Mark iii. 21.
AHi;|: and trs. to make stammer, to
make foolish, to confound, make confused, to
madden, &c. Acts xxvi. 24. Ephes. iv. 14.
1 Kings xi. 3.
vmp. pass, to be treated as afool, to be played
with, to be an object of mockery, &c. Gal. vi. 7.
HI 0 !: s. stick, staff.
HT1-: Eth. ’HThO: adj. wicked, foolish, a
mocker, scorner. Ps. i. 1.
'HThC : adj. chequered, variegated, consisting
of various colours. Gen. xxxvii. 24.
to be chequered, variegated, present
different colours.
s. an earthen jar for fluids, larger
than a gombo, and smaller than a gan.
TTYP-C1-C : ad J *-9-*HThC= Gen. xxx. 32.
Zech. vi. 3.
: s * chequered, variegated, or
spotted colour. Jer. xiii. 23.
HTJg: s. a sort of Turkish corn, of red colour,
and small in size. Vid. oijhA::
s. a branch, twig, bough, sprig. John
xii. 13.
H^l: and l-Pl: the warp, woof, weft. Isa. xix. 9.
lix. 5: PlV^: —: “ cobweb.”
/ //
v. a. Heb. Ar. A j to remember, re¬
collect, bear in mind.
THln^: pass, to be remembered, borne in
mind.
AHtl^: trs. to make remember, to remind.
■ffo >
TllnC: s. Heb. Ar.^j recollection, remem¬
brance, memory, memorial, monument. Ex.
xii. 14.
HTd‘. s. one who goes round; a loiterer, a va¬
gabond. Rad. H*^::
H(DT£: v. n. to continue. Rad.
hHarr^: V.a. to continue, to do any thing
constantly. Col. iv. 2. 1 Kings xxi. 15.
Hdhjf: s. a garland, coronet, crown. Ex.
xxviii. 37.
s. saffron. Cant. iv. 14.
HE: s. a duck.
&
H£*T:s. Heb. fPl Ar. oil. Gen. xxviii.
18. Ex. xxix. 2. Al.
H.Ji't* 1: s. Ar. the olive-tree. Isa. xvii. 6.
s. nature of oil. Rom. xi. 24.
ng£-= Ar. glass. Job xxviii. 17.
H3: v. a. Eth. H^lrh: to shut up, lock up, to
close. (2) to weave, i.e. to throw the shuttle’s
thread into the warp. Gen. vii. 16. Isa. lix. 5.
TH;j: pass, to be shut, locked; to be woven.
HI: v. n. to rust, to become rusty, to corrode.
James v. 3.
Am: act. to make rusty, to corrode.
AH^J: Shoa. to yawn. al. AA*!**!*::
H “I: s. rust, corrosion.
H°I: H°|: AA: to trot. H°|: H°I- “^A^P:
“ the trotting.”
I-Tp-A: s. a sea-shell.
H>A= "lA: to soothsay. Lev. xx. 6. HTWV:
Afl'AA: to cause or order to soothsay.
2 Chr. xxxiii. 6. 2 Kings xxi. 6. H*WV:
a soothsayer.
Hi 00 : v. n. to be slow, soft, cautious.
AHlcro: v.a. to do slowly, softly, cautiously,
esp. to walk slowly. 2 Kings ii. 11.
H19°: AA: i.q . HI 00 ::
HIT 0 : AKO : AH*! 00 ::
s. prudence, caution, slowness; mode¬
ration. Acts xxvi. 3.
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P:
Tn^: and s guinea-fowl.
*H°in: 2 Chr. i. 15. for cedar. See also Isa.
xiv. 8. xliv. 4.
rust, corrosion. James v. 3. Prov.xxv.4.
H11: Eth. v. a. to fake a handful, fill one's hand.
s. one handful, as much as one can hold
in the hollow of one hand, not to be con¬
founded with *6/5: q.v.
HTP: v.a. to tarry, delay, to linger, to he slow,
to defer. Gen. xxxii. 4.
?kH1P: act. to make tarry or linger, to de¬
tain, to retard.
Eth. H1KP" to prepare, make ready,
set in order, to arrange. Nehem. viii. 10.
Job xxvii. 16.
MUg: idem, and caus. to make prepare, &c.;
to appoint. Gen. xxiv. 14.
TH3g: pass. & refl. to be prepared, pre¬
pare oneself. Gen. xli. 32.
a sort of flute. Tig. ”
Hfllf: num. ninety. Its cipher is 1;:
HOlf*?: the ninetieth.
HimF: and HAITI 1 :: the ninth.
HATS: num. nine. Gen. v. 4. Its cipher is u;:
S'
HR.: s. Ar. ebony. 1 Chr. ii. 8. Cant. i. 17.
H6 : AA: and 'HQ,: T16 : AA: H<5.
Hd," to ferment.
H6 : s * t ree ‘
Hv. to sprout, to shoot forth, to produce
knots (of plants), to thrive.
trs. to make shoot forth, cause to thrive .
s G
■H6/r: s. Ar. Heb. HQt pitch.
n&,\: V. a. to dance , to play, make music.
trs. to make dance, cause to play.
s. dance, music, flay. Gen. xxxi. 27.
H-.0: s. throne, chair. Gen. xli. 40. Ex. xi. 5.
H: from MH:: XHj “ruler,”
for *] H. from 14:: In common language,
it is often confounded with Very few
words commence with this letter: indeed, I
know but one word which does not allow any
other initial, and that is the following.
Tf "5: zshan, title of address to the king: Sire!
tfl: U*JE: “O king!" This is the word
which gave rise to the supposition that the
renowned king, Priest John, afterwards known
to have been one of the Khans of Tartary,
had his seat in Abyssinia.
Tr5K<^l: s . eunuch. Better gljttn::
”1^.: better Tf "!<£,: guinea-fowl.
P:
P: pau-j: or puijT: YAMAN Or YAMAN, the
twenty-third letter of the Amharic alphabet.
Being the softest of the liquid consonants, it
is more than any other, excepting Y\:> liable
to being absorbed.
p: before nouns and pronouns signifies the
genitive case: before verbs in the preterite
tense, the relative pronoun who, which, that,
what; e.g. PC : “ the Word of God, which created
the world.” Prepositions have the power of
absorbing it; e.g. n° D XfhK : croj^auj^jf;
J£: .. • .PHA:
( 160 )
• . . P9°:
instead of I1P OIJ X , dh<3.: &c. “in the com¬
mencement of the book.” (When still in
such genitive cases with prepositions the P:
is retained, it is distributive from ”/\P: e.g.
nPOUJtrhG.: ougoiic;.?: in the com¬
mencement of each respective book.) :
instead of Prt^flb: “like
as he wrought or made it.”
preformative of the 3d pers. m. sing. & pi.
com. in the present tense in verbs; e.g. J^ou
*i)A: “he comes.” £rh,£A: “they go.”
Any prefix causes the elision of this conso¬
nant retaining only the vowel i; e.g . 1*1,th.
“going,” “ while they go,” for
“they that learn,” for P9 n .P,
fl^A^: “if it is possible tome,”
for :
Jp: (1) contraction of P: or (see the prece¬
ding) with A:: (2) pron. demonstr. of the
... remote; fem. that. Its declension is as
follows: sing. n. JP: m. f. g. PH.JP:
m. PHJ^ : f. d AH^= m AH.^:f a.
JPi'I : m. pl/XAH^: those, they,
g PAH.^: d. AAH..P: ace. >»AH.H : :
or pi. contracted A JP: those, they, g. PA.P:
, d. AA.P: a. > i A i P'$::
y 9°: JP9°: litt. “ that one and that one,”
i. e. “ both,” “ one with another.” Deut. xxiii.
18. Ps.xii. 2. PH..PT: T.HL: “at that
time,” “then.” Yid. also YlH.JP:: nH.^3
G)£ JP" nfltY”
£H: m. ^H^f*: and : f. dem. prom, of
what is near: this. Declension, sing. m.
JP.H : f. JP.HT-: and JP^f 1 :: this ; gen. m. p
■ H.U : f. PH.H¥:: and PH/?*:: d. m. AH.
H: f. AHU¥: and AH,^ :: acc. in. yv
Yi : and £H1: f.^H^T: and yfr'i: pi.
n. ’AAHH: ("AYH.H0 and>»AH: these;
g. PAHAJ: (P1H.H:) and PAH:: d. AA
H.H: (AYH.H '■) and A AH:: acc. >»AH.m:
OilKHl:) and )iAH1:: In combination
with prepositions it forms adverbs, which see
in I1H.H:: >Y}SLH:: VIKH.H:: Y1H.H'.:
®£AI" G)£H" G)£H.H:: flAH.H"
.PHA: adv. equal to, near to, about, vid. AYlA::
pr. (1) Judea. (2) Juda.
yihyK- ^A^»: -inoDAfl:
“ If we rather returned to Egypt.” especially ;
lTim.iv. 10: fiGKl: lhAl: P 0 ^^^
T: JPA*|l'19 n : P l *9.P9 D Y.'l : “ who saves
all men, especially those that believe.” c. v. 8.
Rad. A*P: q-v.
„PAG)' < I >,? I': without knowledge.
PA£fi: n. pr. EAAdf, g. -aSo?, Greece, the
Morea. Acts xx. 2.
VAiT: without hand. Dan. viii. 25.
P9°: (P 11 ^.: P°9:) prefix to the relative
participle of the present tense; e.g. P°9,G)
y ?: “ he that loves,” “ loving.” P9 uouit) :
. . . pY:
( 161 )
PYA: . . EUF:
“ coming,” “ I who come. ” P9°^0:
“doing,” “thou who doest.” P^TH :
“wanting,” “we that want.”*
Jpor>.£: Ar.jp> or *jps£ n Heb.“V)ttrT a sort
of goat or gazelle.
P9°A^: s. Eth. Heb. ITVifen
Z> J
Ar.jyL) good news.
pqoY flY: deprived of any person by death.
A n't 5 : —: “fatherless orphan.” HA:—:
“ a widow.” Deut. xiv. 29.
poqi: Eth. right hand, that which is to the
right-hand side. Ps. cx. 5. Amh.
P^/lA, 1 ? 0 : n. pr. Eth. h.P^i’lA,? 11 :: Heb.
Ar. pAfgJ Jerusalem.
PCHA: s. bracelet. 2 Sam. i. 10. Perhaps i.q.
the following.
PCP6-: s a bracelet of ivory worn above the
elbow. In Shoa, soldiers who in war have
killed one Galla (or other enemy) are entitled
to a yarbora; those who have killed three
receive the EnjAJt^ ¥'.; those who have killed
ten, the n.YY‘- respecting which see p. 19.
a. and 90. b.
PfllY Jesus.
Pf|*fl: Ar. Heb. nCtY jasper (a gem).
Ex. xxviii. 18. improperly for bSn\ Ezek.
xxviii. 13.
pfjAj: i-9- ilAf: Acts xxi. 31.
subjunct. 3d pers. m. s. may it. be re¬
mitted, omitted, let it be left, let it cease. —:
. AA- “ to forgive.” —: YHA: “to be for¬
given or pardoned,” “to receive pardon.”
1 Cor. vii. 25. —: HJP.: “forgiving,” “par¬
doning,” “one who pardons.” Heb. ii. 17.
JP.YG Y • s * forgiveness, forgiving, pardoning
grace. Isa. lx. 10.
PY: Ar. jasper (gem). Ex. xxviii. 17.
1 Chr. xix. 2. Lament, iv. 7.
s - a goose. Deut. xiv. 12.
pY: interrog. pron. & adv. who? which?
what? where? It attaches itself to some
prepositions, in order to form adverbs of
interrogation; e.g. where ? ” Vl
E,*: “ how ?" Yl P Y: “ whence ?”
PYA: where is? pi. PYA*: where are? from
PY: and A A ” Gen. xix. 5.
R^Y : A.iY : 9- v -
Ionian, i. e. Ancient Greek (language).
P’fY : idem. pi. P'FAP.P^ : H an * viii. 21.
P-Vf: Ionia, the Ionian Islands. Geogr.
PV|YY: the 6th month of the Abyssinians,
beginning the 7 th or 8 th of February.
PY1I: adj. simple, upright, sincere, unsuspecting.
Gen. xx. 5.
PAPH Y: and PAPUY : s. simplicity, integrity,
meekness.
PTUf: and PYUiY: i.q. PAPHY"
PAP* 1 !: Gr. lura, the Greek letter t. Matt,
v. 18.
,PH: v.a. Eth. A'JH: Heb. Ar. to
seize, lay hold on, to take. Gen. viii. 11 :
YAIA: ¥M m - “holding a leaf.” xxiv. 10:
"AY : “ taking luggage.” Isa. xli. 21 :
A^£Y: Vi£A¥lP: £HYlP: P: “if
you have got any thing, bring it forward.”
AYH: trs. to make lay hold on, induce, cause,
or order to take, to seize, & c. Ex. xxxvi. 17.
Cant. iii. 7.
Y^H: pass, to be seized, taken, laid hold on.
Afl^H : caus. i.q. AYH:: to cause taking,
seizing; hence, to give over, to deliver, to
betray. Matt. x. 4.
Y.P.PH: pass, intens. to be taken, seized, cap¬
tured, made prisoner. Isa. li. 20.
PG/**^: s * P 000 !^: — : pillar to which
criminals are tied, in order to undergo
scourging. Acts xxii. 25.
K :
S’ - ST5-1: Dant, the twenty-fourth letter of
the Amharic Alphabet.
£H:v. n. to crawl or glide on one's knees.
s. gunpowder. Shoa.
.Ptlf- adj. well, safe, secure, sound, healthy, sa¬
lubrious, happy, n .P.H f: in health, safety,
happiness, well-being. Is the standing word
Y
( 162 )
in salutation; e. g. K: Eth. “ contudit,” “contrivit, “conquas-
savit.” Amh. to be well-built, ordered, and
arranged, Ps. cvii. 4. p^cro<|>Vf ; Y\1C,~
“ a regularly-built,” “ an inhabited town.”
Cant. vi. 4. Ex. xxvi. 31. P£cto«|> : f)£.;
“ work well arranged,” “ cunning work.”
Judges v. 31: 0*h£: n(D«l¥: T.H,: "AT
j^.^^ 9 n^ : ££*a«c|i: “as the
sun shines gloriously when he rises, so may
they be glorious ! 2 Sam. xxiii. 4.
£*9 lI 'flAA: s. coriander.
K9°n£.: adj. & s. one-eyed. al. UHA"
1 K 9 ,, nC : s - confines, frontier, boundary, adja¬
cent country. Prov. xxii. 28.
adj. adjacent, bordering, from the
frontier, belonging to a neighbouring people.
JE^‘9 T, n.T*: s. a little red house-bird, resem¬
bling the sparrow in shape.
JE^ro-V: S. Tig. £*crc>: Dank, dembitoo, a cat.
s. a scolopendra, centipede, very fre¬
quent in Abyssinia.
; s . cloud. ‘PflT: —: “ the rainbow”;
“an arch,” “a vault.” PI. clouds.
Gen. ix. 16. Ps. xviii. 11.
K^h: ( 1G3 ) • ••
gnu?: s. a blood-man, esp. avenger of blood.
Num. xxxv. 24.
£ I,M (I) R: s. wages, salary, reward, pay. (comp,
of “blood 11 and (DHL: “my sweat,”
lit. “ my blood-sweat.”) Gen. xxx. 33.
£7 na in-’- and £7 Ija I r l ,;, F: Vid. £9°:-
RVVR: s. voice. Gen. iii. 8.
TkK 010 *: v. denom. to listen, hearken, to give
ear. conf. Heb.
v. a. to wad, to guilt ; to sew rags upon old
clothes.
TRd.: pass.
JX'-v.a. to marry, give away in marriage, used
of the parents of the bride, Deut. xxii. 16.
to jest, play, Gen. xxvi. 8. (to cohabit?)
to be married; (of the female) to marry
(a husband).
y /.: s. a black horse. Zech. vi. 2.
y f: s. (Gond.) a thicket, forest; (Shoa) the open
field, uninhabited country, uncultivated ground.
s. shore, bank of a river; coast of the sea;
frontier of a country; extremity of any thing.
Gen. xxxviii. 14. xli. 2. Ex. xxxvi. 18 : £
Cf: £C- “ each side,” “ on every side.”
& £Cj: con j. but, however, i.q. °T}::
: s. a neck-chain. Bl.
J^C* s warp, in weavers 1 language, i.q. *H H'fl ' ■
KQ b. the olden time, time of old. £•£]: H
OB'}; idem. Deut. xxxii. 7.
RC «• Tig. PClf: Dank, durhe. fowl, poultry ;
esp. hen. pi. : and ££■¥■::
—: “male fowl," i.e. “cock.”
Jf^TDsAr.^J § P a XM> drachm. Num. xviii.
16.
££iro»'}: Ar. ship. Isa. xxxiii. 21.
s. Ex. xxx. 23. P—: A’]£: Ar.
^_“calamus aromaticus,” sweet
fi a 9'
RiO- v. n. to arrive, to reach, attain. (D£:
kic yr.o " he arrived in his country.”
Kcft : ’^ oorr|AU ' : “ arriving, I will come,”
i.e. “I will just go, and speedily return.”
oofinc: £^l>: “they
arrived at the breaking of his door,” i. e. had
nearly broken his door,” Gen. xix. 9. Jonas
i- 4. (D£:
&c. “May this letter reach &c.!” (form of
•address of a letter.)
trs. to make reach, cause to arrive,
to lead, to guide.
RCO- postpos. particle, always preceded by
: or “ as far as," “ as long &c.
as ; ” “ up to," “till,” “until.” >*fslflH.AI:
“till here,” “hitherto,” “up to this
place or time.” Gen. iii. 19 : "ftflYl^TOOA
0 : “ until thou returnest.”
.yC^i' : s * lawful, legitimate possession, due
portion, i.q. Ps. cxix. 99.
■E-CV*: Eth. s. composition, essay, tract; esp.
historical and biographical pieces are called
. £-£. 1 * 0 ::
£Cl*0 : P rov * vii. 17. Ar. Jid
cinnamon.
R&tix- Ex. xxx. 23. idem.
W-fi: s. one who arrives, has arrived, afresh
comer, a guest, a stranger, foreigner.
Rif : v. n. cf. Germ, “trocken,” “trocknen.”
to be or become dry, to dry.
act. to dry.
Ri’f- and KC*: s. & adj. dry ; that which is
dry. Gen. i. 10. Ex. xiv. 16. Haggai ii. 6.
EC* 1 «• dryness, drought, aridity. Hag. i. 11.
s. idem.
v. a. to overlay, to cover; to cast over, to line,
to clothe, to double. Judges iv. 19. Isa. li. 10.
pass.
EC'H : s - woo f or we ft * n c ^ ot ^ ’ cover or ( u PP er )
flooring of a house, esp. a second story of a
building, deck of a ship. Gen. vi. 16.
£Cn: woof or weft.
y-f .fl : double cloth, lining of a cloth and of
other substances.
RdfV- s. chest of man or of animals. Gen. iii.
14.
Ri-t: s. wadded, quilted cloth. Shoa:
RC? : extremity, boundary of any thing,
xxiii. 17.
y 2
Gen.
gC.'i'F 3 - • • •
( 164 )
£ 1 * 1 : . • •
i-q- J^^T 0 : Lev. xxvii. 25.
KW- Lev. xxi. 20. Ar. name of a certain
bodily defect.
££0: Eth. Ar. or £)i) coat of mail,
habergeon. Isa. x. 18.
£X.O: idem. Rev. ix. 9.
v-a. to lay in layers upon each other, to
put layer upon layer. Gen. xxii. 9.
pass, to be laid up in layers,
hhzdxt- caus. to cause laying up in layers.
KO: non. occ. Eth. “cohsesit,” “conjunctus
fuit.”
hys:> act. to do, to make, to perform, com¬
mit, accomplish, to work. Ex. xxiv. 3 : A°l
.PAGP'i: If-A-T:
all that the Lord hath said, we
will do. ” KR&-- “ to make one’s
hope,” “ to hope,” “ rely on,” “ trust in.”
TK£1: pass, to be made, done, performed.
Jsfl R£T- caus. to cause, order, induce to do,
perform, &c. — : “ t0 ma ke (one)
hope,” “ to promise.”
intens. to perform, accomplish.
v. a. to appoint a maintenance, to fix a
regular allowance. 2 Kings xxv. 30. It is cus¬
tomary with Abyssinian rulers to maintain
those that have any claim upon them (their
household, their workmen, strangers, poor,
&c.), with appointed allowances, either of pre¬
pared food from their own kitchen, or a cor¬
responding quantity of grain and (or) other
victuals. This is called aD ^«^ 0 |::
pass, to have a fixed cdlowance.
s. (1) a regular allowance of food or un¬
prepared victuals appointed by a king or
prince. Esther ii. 9. (2) a measure of solids,
a quarter of a on |*|,: q.v.
s-c»? = s. one who has his maintenance ap¬
pointed by the king or prince.
: s - a q ua tt' Ex. xvi. 13. Num. xi.
31. Ps. cv. 40.
££X*: darats’at, s. an Abyssinian plant, the
leaves of which are used against rheumatism;
they are laid upon the affected parts, where,
in a very short time, they draw blisters, and
thus relieve the patient from his rheumatic
pain.
and SiliV v. a. to touch, come in contact
with, to handle. Gen. xxvii. 12: hnt: as
|V?: “ if my father touch me.” 2 Peter i. 9 :
Iflb: “he is blind and
groping.”
T Rfl: pass, to be touched.
KfL part, of joy. —: 7\(\'. to rejoice, to be
glad, cheered, to have pleasure, to delight. Ps.
xxxvii. 4 : nX a IH.Adnrfi.C: Kfl: £nA*J:
“ rejoice {delight thyself) in the Lord.” :
AfiT: v. a. to cheer, to gladden, delight, to
make rejoice.
£fi:s. a hut of twigs or brushwood. Lev. xxxiii.
42.
£rtl*|: Tigr. jyhrtrt,: i.q. Matt. viii. 3.
1 John i. 1. Gen. xxvii. 22.
T^rtri: pass. i.q. XRtlr.
sfia-: s. joy, rejoicing, gladness, delight. Gen.
xxi. 6.
£lVr: s. island. pL Kl'l.P'T'” and
Gen. x. 5. Isa. xlix. 1.
s. Ar. i pan, saucepan, cauldron.
gfirr? 5 : adj. & s. rejoicing, cheerful. Isa. xxiv. 8.
Ar. village. pl.^TLj Q:
“villages.” Num. xxxiv. 4, 10.
gif: Eth. and Tigr. child, esp. son, boy. :
uo*Hai>*£: “ son of the psalms,” i.c.“ dis¬
ciple ,” “ scholar ,” because the psalms form so
prominent a part in Abyssinian instruction,
ph “scholars. 1 '
son of the Daro” (Warka), a plant,
a sort of large beads.
y 3>A: s. illegitimate child, bastard.
S * >
Ar. Jj'j mast of a ship. Geogr.
v. a. to bruise, to pound, to triturate.
pass, to be bruised, pounded, tri¬
turated.
Ar. Heb. pj5*7 • v. n. to be thin,
fine, tender, to fade, to ivither away. Gen.
xli. 23. Isa. xxviii. 13. cf. and jepP-rt::
• • • £* r fl:
( 165 )
£nA°: • • . TKfl t l > :
act. to make thin, reduce to dust, to
pound, pulverise. Deut. vii. 24.
£*£4*: (1) i-q- Eth. child. (2) thin,
minute, fine, powdered.
£■$><%: s. any thing powdered, pulverised,
pounded ; dust, particle, atom. 2 Chr. xxxiv. 4.
& /» *
£<%$>: s. Ar. a minute (particle of time).
Geogr.
s. Ar. jfrsJ flour, powder.
■ s. gonorrhoea; emission of animal
seed.
s. Gr. BtaKovta, state, office, and dignity
of a deacon or deaconess. 1 Tim. v. 9.
£«!>£*: v. a. to wedge; to drive down, e.g.
a stake into the ground,
pass.
s. Dabo (1) in Shoa, i.q. (2) in
Tigre, a sort of leavened wheaten bread,
generally of the shape and size of dumplings,
baked upon an iron plate, and overlaid with
bitter leaves, in order to prevent it from
burning, al. 'WiriT"
£n: s. Daba, a yellow-tanned cow's skin, worn
by the poor, and by monks, instead of, or
over other clothes.
£H: s. Tigr. a species of urtica. Botany.
£/l: s. Diibba, a gourd- or melon-like fruit,
with scarcely any taste or flavour.
a sort of heads.
a den, hole for wild beasts. B.
Ar. hd. a she-hear. Hos. xiii. 8.
s. according to many Shoa
and Gurague informants, an animal which is
said to live in Gurague, having the formation
of a cat and of a lion ; and although being
somewhat smaller than the latter, yet roar¬
ing more powerfully, so as to frighten all
other animals ; and therefore it is called the
king of animals. No one however, of those
whom we asked, had seen it; therefore its
existence and nature remain still a matter
of uncertainty.
£n/V: s. a tanned sheep's skin, worn by the
Abyssinians over their other dress,
s. the young of beasts of prey.
i"fl : —: “a young lion.” Num. xxiii. 24.
v. a. to mix, to mingle.
ftEPA: trs. and caus. to cause, order, or
alloiv mixing, mingling. Lev. xix. 19.
T^HAt: pass, to he mixed. Gen. xxx. 32.
Lev. xix. 19.
: s. mixture, mingling, confusion. Lev.
xix. 19.
idem.
K'filC- s - Eth. pi- and
mountain, esp. monastery, convent, as they are
generally built upon mountains.
A.Hf’fl: (1) Mount Lebanon, in Sy¬
ria. (2) Debra Lihanos, the most celebrated
convent in Shoa, being the supposed native
place of the famous Tecla Haimanot, and
the centre of his labours. A hot spring
of water with very salutary qualities, which
is found there, is believed to derive its
healing powers from that saint, and always
attracts large numbers of patients; and
the very earth is carried away and used
as a remedy against rheumatic complaints.
That monastery is the chief seat of learn¬
ing for the kingdom of Shoa; but as such,
it seems to be inferior to Gondar.
—: : (1) Mount Sinai in Arabia. (2) a
mountain of the same name near Adowa.
—: 3-PC : (0 Mount Tabor in Palestine.
(2) Debra Tabor, a town in the province of
Bagammeder, the residence of the family
of the present Ras.
—: H JE'T': Mount of Olives, near Jeru¬
salem.
Debra Damo, (1) a celebrated
monastery in Agame, instituted, it is said,
and patronized by Abba Aragawi. (2) A
mountain near Adowa.
—: a mountain near Gondar.
—: 0 P'T: Mount Zion.
Kn:
( 166 )
E : s. a kind of bread, made of the flour
of peas. B.
EfMl:s. the south. Lev. xxvi. 18. Ezek.xlviii. 21.
: s. a large umbrella, which, instead of a
canopy, the priests carry about in procession,
on certain solemn occasions. The King of
Shoa has generally two such E’H of
red velvet, with fringes, carried with him
whenever he makes an excursion; one car¬
ried on each side.
s. (1) tabernacle. Revel, xv. 5. E*n
T
y^TP: s. the moment. nyTi^p : “ in a mo¬
ment," “ suddenly/’ “ unexpectedly,” “ una¬
wares,” “ accidentally.”
XHH: v. n. to be dim before one's eyes, to be
dim-sightecl.
SWiy . s. stone. Eth. :: Tigr. Vm.:
and
snrn: Vid. y^IX”
Kl'l'PC 1 s. female servant, esp. chambermaid.
Ex. ii. 5.
£nX” yVMl:: and WIO: v. n. to be asto¬
nished, amazed, affrighted, terrified. Ex. xv. 1 5.
AftyVIX: trs. to astonish, to amaze, frighten,
terrify. Gen. ix. 2.
adj. astonished, amazed,frightened, ter¬
rified, confused. £VR: —: “discouraged,”
“ disheartened,” “ a coward.” Deut. xx. 8.
.K-TJX,: s. astonishment, amazement, fright,
terror.
s. a small red stripe in a garment,
between the fringes on the edge and the
broad-coloured stripe.
v. n. to exercise in arms, used of the army,
esp. at the great annual review on the festi¬
val of the Invention of the Cross, on the
26th and 27th of September. Isa. v. 29.
yV- s. Eth. yy^:: Heb. judge, esp. arbi¬
trator. Gen. xix. 9. Rad. Eth. yPl::
zy- rr--
sO s. Shoa. sulphur, brimstone, al. SO-
an earthen or metallic basin. A wooden
one is called Ex. xxx. 17.
: Eur. duke.
or yYl-A: a kind of roes, whose
female is called
yYlou: v. n. to labour, to exert oneself, to get
tired,fatigued, to be weary ; to be weak, fainting.
AyYl 011 : v. a. to tire, fatigue, weary. Gen.
xxxiii. 13.
idem.
s. fatigue, weariness, faintness, weak¬
ness, debility, infirmity, labour, trouble.
y Vjui^; s. fatigued, tired, troubled, fcant, weak
infirm.
yV-jaij: idem. Num. xiii. 19. 1 Cor. viii. 7.
Ps. xxxix. 4.
RU-S*: s- Eur. dukedom, duchy. Geogr.
£T:s. sickness, disease, illness ; a sick person.
yam-. v. n. to sound, to be rung (of a bell).
ftyam: v. a. to sound, ring a bell.
yO)A: s. a bell.
yO)A: s. Eth. territory, country. Acts ii. 10 :
yam: y-. “ the Libyan country."
yT^P: (1) n. pr. David. (2) meton. the
Psalms of David.
yr*,: s. Ar. the smallest coin in
Egypt, the fortieth part of a piaster, twenty
of which are a dollar, i. e. about four shil¬
lings. Matt. v. 26.
y*Opy: adj. sick, ill, diseased, infirm ; a patient.
yi:s. Skxkovos, deacon, pi.
Phil. i. 1.
y.yTUVfl: S. SiafioXog, devil. Matt. iv. 1.
yyT: s. Heb. ^"7 Ar. Eth. “judgment”
in general. Amh. the Last Judgment,
yyy Eth. i.q. y? -.judge. Micah vi. 14.
yy= ad j- dumb, mute ; and sometimes deaf.
Ex. iv. 10. Luke i. 20.
ZTJ°-
( 168 ) » £-39":...TK4.=
RR- s - molar tooth. Shoa, the gums.
s. juniper-tree. Lud.
Kg': s. Tigr. K l.:: door, gate, gateway, entry,
avenue to any place. Gen. iv. 7. K&: Xf:
“to wait,” “to expect.” Ps. xl. 1. gg":
1*1 A9°: “ chief entry," “ hous e-door," “ gate.”
£g*: ^"9^: Dadjazmatsh, governor of
a province.
K-g-f: s. a large and heavy iron rod, sharp at
the bottom, used as an instrument for break¬
ing stones. Ps. Ixxiv. 5.
i-q- Kg': *VH**9¥: Vid. sub
Kg’- Esther viii. 9. Tigr.
Kgg-: contraction of Kg-HOTJ^:: Tigr.
RT- v. a. to be great, respectable, virtuous, good,
suitable.
n. to grow. Gen. i. 22. xxi. 8.
MK1-. v. trs. to cause growing, to educate,
to train, to bring up. : “May
He cause you to grow! ” is said to a little
boy when he sneezes.
y°l: ) fem. : adj. great, suitable, respect-
n.) able, virtuous, strpng, good. Heb. x. 1.
y *7: (1) adj. high, tall. Ps. xxxvii. 36. (2) s.
high country, mountainous country, table-land,
opposed to tpnA: “ low country.”
P : for : “ cedar.” 1 Kings
iv. 33.
£ : s. a sash, belt, girdle of cloth.
y a l: s. a certain cane, the pith of which is
eaten, by the poor, while soft. The wood is
burned instead of torches, with which the
Abyssinians walk about on the eve of any
great festivals. Bl.
c>
g*|OTi: v. a. to repeat, to do again, to repeat
(pray) the rosary, to read. 1 Const. :
^ojcnj: g°ioDy: &c. his (her,
thy, &c.) repeating, i.e. “ he also,” &c. Ps. x. 18.
Wow: pass, to be repeated, done again,
read, & c.
: s - a repeater, a reader.
KW: conj. also; adv. again, equally, likewise.
£ a i9 T, ‘- Eth. repeated. H—: “Deute¬
ronomy.”
s. repetition, reiteration, the reading.
Ex. vii. 12.
EiaoF: i.q. UhAfF: repeating, repeated,
again, a second time.
g-Wl: v.a. to stamp figures into leather, wood
&c. with a hot iron, esp. in bookbinding,
fi: pass.
: caus.
: adj. & s. prominent, protuberant, pre-emi¬
nent, strong ; a pre-eminence, protuberance, &c.
Luke iii. 5.
: dagussa, an Abyssinian sort of grain,
belonging to the genus panicum. The Abys¬
sinians have two sorts of it, a white and a
black one, both of which are used for bread,
which is inferior to the T’ef-bread; and for
beer, for which it is preferred to barley.
Ezek. iv. 9.
s. (1) a figure, or figures, impressed
with a hot iron into leather or wood, esp. in
bookbinding. (2) a leather cover of a sheath
of a sword; sheath of a sword.
£9^: s. steepness, steep ascent.
idem.
XflY'V : s. respectability, greatness, virtue, good¬
ness, strength, fitness, suitableness.
*glRl:v.n. to stamp, to tread. Bl.
* '• s the stamping, treading. Bl.
£*K = v.a. to support, uphold, to assist, to refresh,
refrigerate. Gen. xviii. 5. xxi. 18. Ex. xvii. 12.
T£9d.: pass, to be supported, &c.
^4.'- s - a support, supporting instrument, foot
of any furniture. Gen. xxvi. 19.
- false spelling of : ? molar tooth,
grinder. Bl.
s. a small Jcitchen-pot of clay.
£0: Eth. ^ 0: lubricity, slipperiness, the gli¬
ding, sliding. Ps. xxv. 6.
to be slippery, to slide, glide out.
£4.: v. a. to knock, to hit, strike, to beat. Mark
xv. 17. Isa. lx. 14.
pass. & refl. to be knocked, beaten,
struck; to knock, beat, strike oneself; to
throw oneself down. Luke v. 12. 2 Clir.
xx. 18. Dan. x. 15.
( 169 )
?.&.C v. n. to be bold, courageous, audacious,
insolent; to take courage, to venture, to risk,
to hazard. Ex. xxi. 14.
s. & adj. bold, courageous, audacious, inso¬
lent, impudent. Prov. xiii. 3.
: idem. 2 Peter ii. 10.
v. n. to be unquiet, to ferment. Ps.
xlvi. 3.
ft: act. to disturb, stir up, to agitate,
of liquids. Ezek. xxxii. 2,13. xxxiv. 18,
19.
courage, boldness, audacity, insolence.
■K-4.1: «• a wild and fugitive animal resembling
a cow.
v. n .to foam. Mark ix. 20.
trs. to make foam, cause foaming.
///
Rtf'- v.a. Ar. to stop, fill up, stuff, to cram ;
to choke up, to hide in the ground, to infer; to
overflow, to cover entirely. Matt. viii. 24.
Gen. xxvi. 15.
intens. to choke up the fire.
TRtf: pass, to be stopped, filled up, choked,
overflowed, &c. Gen. viii. 2.
s. fulness, integrity, the whole, flj^ 1
fj/}: “fully,” “entirely,” “wholly.” adj.
full, filled up, opp. to il : “ hollow.” Ex.
i xxvii. 8. Ps. cxiv. 8. ^^,1: H 01 !: “an
entire cloth,” opp. to «1>£,F: & “ICHTI: q.v.
: non occ.
r'iR^Rtf v. n. to tumble down. Judges
v. 27, 28.
s. the husk of leguminous fruits or of
grain.
£:
g: g-i*: djant or jant, the twenty-fifth
letter of the Amharic alphabet. It is a sibi¬
lant, pronounced like the English J: it has
no place in the ancient Ethiopic; but in the
modern Amharic and Tigre, it is frequently
formed where the Ethiopic has the third or
the fifth order of the letters H: K : or T::
In common language, it is often confounded
with TT: but attention to etymology gene¬
rally is sufficient to decide the orthography.
gao,» : v. n. & act. to commence, to begin.
Inf. auj^uu£: the commencing, beginning.
YlHr': g^O “ from this day,” “ begin¬
ning from to-day.”
"Fg 00 #^ P ass * to be begun or commenced.
Ex. xix. 13.
caus. to make begin, cause to
begin.
s. one that begins, a beginner.
s. a joint, juncture of the limbs, articu¬
lation. Gen. xxxii. 25. Eph. iv. 16.
g-tnj-pijO; adj. full of joints ; a lean, meagre
person, the joints of whose body are visible.
Is a nickname. Bl.
go S. Eth. iVHT: Tig. the ear.
Gen. xxxv. 4.
Sen : s. the back, “ dorsum.” Ex. xxiii. 27.
gcr = s. porcupine, hedgehog. Bl.
: s. tail. Ex. iv. 4. g*<5.T:
(thin-tailed) “ giraffe.”
g^G. : s. a cowherd. Bl.
g^^: Esther ii. 3: g.UJ4*: UP U I'}: Ar.
“ Susan the Palace." 1
g*TI: s. Tigr. Ar. hycena, a very
common animal in Abyssinia.
g-HCV: S. an Abyssinian plant, resembling
the bamboo.
gnf: s. Ar. xUs- a coffee-pot, a wash-kettle,
a water-flask .
Vid.
g~i: ilA 01 ).: s. “King’s ornamenter,” a very
common title for Abyssinian mechanicians.
g*T: Ar. ^sw Amh. demon, genius.
Isa. xiii. 24/
gl-t-: s. a sort of round beads, of red colour
with blue spots.
ITIE.: ». a hide of a cow or an ox, tanned or
un tanned.
S.'Ktn ■■ s. eunuch.
P H: Ar. ijf>- nut, esp. cocoa-nut. Ex. xxxvii.
19. Al. IdKH:
prob. from Jj a new piece of money.
Ti 1AA: • • • lAOnm:
( no )
••‘lAA:
Ar. a cricket (insect). Lev. I
xi. 22.
g<7£:: 3*1:-: shield-bearer. 2 Chr. xii. 10.
^ a |f: adj. courageous, undaunted, fearless, brave.
£< 5 .£< 5 .=
v-a. to sprout, to shoot out, to
burgeon, to bring forth sprouts, i.q.
* 1 :
7: 79*^: gaml, the twenty-sixth letter of the |
Amharic alphabet, is a palatal consonant,
pronounced like the English g before a, o, u,
and consonants.
—: a terminating syllable affixed to substan¬
tives, with the power of a preposition, signi¬
fying about, near, by. ngg-3: “ about, near,
by the door.” II ll.'V*!: “ near the house.”
U*“ about two, three.” Shoa.
—1: similar to the preceding: it signifies a
direction, towards, to, by the side ; e.g. <£.lTL:
“ the head-side. ” VlC'L “the foot-side.”
John xx. 12. “ hand-side,” i. e.
“ sleeve.”
s. Gr. yeevva. Ar. hell. Matt.
xvi. 18. From the Heb. Q’iSrr N?*
*){J: or s. dawn of the morning.
1A:v. a. contr. from IK A: to kill. Gen. xii. 12.
7*7 A: pass, to be killed.
>A:v. n. contr. from T-K A: to want. Ps. xii. 1.
7A: s. animal body. Gen. xxxvii. 34. Ex. iv. 7.
Isa. xx. 4.
7A: s. Eth. 7AO:: potter s ware, earthen vessel,
potsherd. Ps. xxii. 15. Job ii. 8.
3A: v. n. to be resplendent, to glisten, to shine,
be polished, to glow. Ezek. i. 7. Rev. i. 15.
TO A: v. act. to polish.
3A: n. pr. Galla, a nation in Africa.
°I A '■ s. loneliness, solitariness, state of being alone.
(HA: “ he told him singly ,” “ being
alone with him.”
’]*A°: s. a roan horse. Bl.
7 A A: v. a. to leave a person alone or to himself.
"lAA^I: imp. “leave me, that I may be
alone! ”
2V1AA: trs. to dismiss a company, in order
to be with one alone.
'P7AA: pass, to be sent away, in order to
leave a person alone.
TXJAA: to fornicate, to commit fornication.
Jer. ii. 20.
7A.A: n. pr. Galilee, country in Palestine.
7" A A: v. a. Eth. 7 A(D ” to make round, to cover
all around ; used of tents, and of the hanging
of curtains round and over a bedstead.
TT^AA: pass, to be covered and veiled all
around.
7*-AA^t*: s. (1) head or top of a tent. Ex. xxxv.
11. Cant. i. 17. (2) chapiter of a column.
1 Kings vii. 6. (3) an urn of clay on the top
of thatched houses.
7A.A^: s. a Galilean.
>A oxl l‘l: v. n. to arrive at the age of manhood,
to be or become a young man, to be vigorous,
strong of bodily power. Ex. ii. 11. 1 Chr.
xviii. 10. Ps. xxxvii. 25.
>A07* m |: s. a young and vigorous man. Gen.
iv. 23. xxi. 20. John ix. 20.
T-Ainjfll^: s. the age of manhood (of males);
age of vigour ; manhood, vigour. Ps. ciii. 5.
7Aq°^: and 7Aq«>: s. a whore, harlot,
prostitute. Gen. xxxiv. 31.
riAqn^Vr: s. whoredom, prostitution, wages of
prostitution. Hos. ii. 4.
"I Aft: s. a caparison.
>A$: s. an Abyssinian plant.
7AH: s. straw. Gen. xxiv. 25.
V. a. to run (of horses). Amos vi. 12.
7AnnT: S. inversion, subversion, overthrow,
tumult, revolution. Rad. 7AIKTI::
T^AllT*: s. (1) patella, the knee itself. (2)
strength, bodily power. Gen. iv. 23.
T'-AH^p: adj. strong, vigorous.
T'-An^LT 11 : adj. strong, vigorous, powerful, full
of bodily vigour. Gen. xlix. 14. Jos. x. 2.
7All ID: v. a. to invert, subvert, overturn, over¬
throw, turn upside down.
*P7 A n ID : pass, to be inverted, &c.
7 Ann ID: intens. to overthrow completely ;
also to jump. Gen. xix. 25.
hlVlAnm: . • riACD:
( 171 ) hmAm:...1oi)T.
AfnAnm: caus. to cause being inverted and
overthrown.
’lAflTO' 1 !: s. perverted, perverse, subverted.
Deut. xxxii. 5. Luke ix. 41.
•lAHGfr: s. overturner, perverter, revolutionist,
unruly person. Prov. xiii. 2.
'PA^t*: s. a fief, feudal tenure, territory granted
by government for a continual possession. Gen.
xlvii. 22. p : .exit- : “ land-mark,” Job
xxiv. 2.
s. an earthen utensil, hollow and open
above and below, broad at the bottom and
narrow at the top, of about eight or ten inches
long. Three of them are put together round
a kitchen fire, to serve as a tripod for putting
the cooking vessels upon: they are also used
singly as stands for drinking-vessels (the
to prevent their falling. Amos
iv. 2.
>AK* = v. n. to be blunt, to be bent at the edge
(of cutting instruments), to have a blunt tongue,
i.e. to stammer, stutter, to spealc awkwardly.
1 Sam. xiii. 21. Eccles. x. 10.
trs. to blunt, to make stammer
or stutter.
*PAJM.: adj. blunt, stammering, stuttering. Ex.
vi. 12.
TATA: non occ.
AT AT A: v.a. to serve, to wait on, to be sub¬
servient to. Gen. xxix. 15.
TTATA: pass, to be served, waited upon,
attended.
Am A'] A: caus. to make serve, cause to serve.
*TATA: v.a. to conciliate, compose matters
between two quarrelling parties. 2 Sam.
xiv. 6.
TATA: s. a foal, the young of horses, asses, and
rapacious quadrupeds. Gen. xlix. 9.
T-AT'A: i-q • TATA" —: Vfl£: lynx.
TAfll: v. a. to uncover, unveil, to lay open or
bare, to expose ; to discover, to reveal, inf.
AT 1 '- “the opening ,” “ uncovering ,” “ reveal¬
ing ,” “ exposing ,” “ discovery ,” “ revelation .”
TTA fU: pass, to be uncovered, unveiled, &c.
Gen. i. 9. viii. 5.
hfllAfll: caus. to cause uncovering, &c.
°J AT 1 : s. the interior margin of a written page.
TAT*: s. openness, distinctness, publicity. f|°l
AT 1 : “openly" “ explicitly ,” “ distinctly ,” “pub-
lickly ,” “ in public .” Neh. viii. 8. Rad. T A III ::
TAX: c. derivv. i.q. lAffl"
T<^: s. Tigr. m barley-bread. Bl.
Ttnj: v. n. to stink, be fetid, emit an unpleasant
smell.
AT***!: trs. to make stink. Ex. v. 21.
T*9«: s. mist, dew, fog. Deut xxxii. 2.
^oij: s. mane of a horse, a lion, &c.
°I9 13 : a bad smell, a stench.
Jtnj: s. the female of the yjn-A: a sort of
roes.
'?ot>A: and TouA: s. Ar. Heb. 703,
camel. Gen. xii. 16. xxiv. 10.
*|.oiiA: s. a cow without horns.
I^AA:
Tl^JAA: v. n. to walk nimbly and proudly.
I^AA: s. one who has a proud walk.
v . a. to select and clean grain.
pass.
'J. uq : hippopotamus, river-horse.
Ar. Ezek. xxviii. 13.
•lourt: v. n. to be halved, to crumble, to be divided,
shattered to pieces. Job xxxix. 24.
/VP”* l*|: act. to divide into halves, to shatter
to pieces.
s. half. Shoa.
TtnjFl: s. half a loaf of bread; a morsel of
bread.
a 17 tl i v S: s. the crumbling, the dividing into
halves.
19°-n: s. a large bird of prey.
: s. a tower, a steeple; a stone house
(Shoa). Gen. xi. 4.
*)«7up ; s . a water-jar, containing from two to
eight gallons.
, )9 n n:: All:—: Tigr. i.q. ’AO>9 n "
a 19 l,, lC: s. the front, forehead. Gen. xvii. 3.
xxiv. 48. xiii. 6.
°17 n n^: P?: a horse with a white forehead.
s. stench. Isa. xxxiv. 3. Amos iv. 10.
*)ooT: s. a plant, belonging to the genus Cru-
z 2
T^J^A: • • • T'llUX:
( H2 )
l^HK.: • • • ICC-
cifera, the leaves of which, resembling those
of turnips, are eaten. Cabbage, and the like
greens, are generally called
Pnc r ) orD '}::
*l.a*}££i: Ar. Jer. ix. 10.
r joii£ : v. a. to make a cord, rope, cable.
*)ouj**: s. cord, rope, cable. Ex. xxxv. 18.
s. a pole, perch. Matt. xxvi. 47.
2 Cor. xi. 25.
>oij£: s . an eunuch.
°l7 D js': silk and muslin cloth. P—: fL'P: silk-
cloth house, the house where clothes, books,
rarities, &c. are kept; Abyssinians’ treasury,
library, museum, &c. P—: rL , *p: fi’9 n :
“ keeper of the silk-stuff house.”
and ■Jon^: to have an inclination to
any enjoyment, esp. carnal appetite, to cohabit.
Jer. v. 8.
; pass, to be enticed, excited to carnal
intercourse, to be inspired with carnal appe¬
tites, to be cohabited with. Gen. xxx, 38.
hfl’h 00 .^,: trs. to infuse carnal appetites, to
excite to sensual pleasures. Gen. iii. 6.
*]cm*joo: v. a. to value the price of any thing;
to bargain.
*t ,,r ]ou']aiJ: pass, to be valued.
•jod: “above its worth, as settled
by estimation,” Lev. xxvii. 15.
°Z9 D ^) ail : s. bargain, agreement, estimation, the
fixed price. 1 Kings xx. 39.
: s . one who values, bargains, fixes any
price.
Vid.
: v. n. Eth. to eructate, to belch.
KM: trs. to make eructate or belch.
“ it causes me to eructate ,” “ I eruc¬
tate .”
; s. black or rather dark-brown leopard,
inhabiting the countries of Narea, Caffa,
and Gurague.
s . eructation.
*ilDX: v.a. to reproach, reprove, chastise, to cor¬
rect, to punish. Gen. xxxi. 42.
T1UJX: pass. to be reproached, reproved, cor¬
rected, punished.
X,: s. reprover, chastiser, corrector, punisher.
Rom. ii. 20. Isa. xxix. 21.
16 .: v. n. to be meek, gentle, simple-hearted. Ps.
xxxiv. 18.
lO s meek, gentle, mild. cf.
°IC : s meekness, gentleness, mildness.
36 .: s. part, of relation. Yl— : with. e.g.
YlL: 36 .: “ with me.” *1A: —: “enemy.”
Isa. lix. 18.
*16.: s. left hand. (D£: —: A A- “to go to
the left-hand side." Gen. xiii. 9. As direc-
y y
tion of the heavens, i.q. Ar. Jl North.
Acts xxvii. 13.
1C s a young elephant.
14‘ ,u = v. n. to be wonderful, astonishing, admi¬
rable, exalted, extraordinary, majestic. With
acc. to whom. Ps. xxxi. 11:
“ I was an object of astonishment to them.”
cf. Ar. ^S.
■fl^cro: med. to wonder at, to admire, to be
astonished.
AflVOTJ: trs. to make astonished; to exalt,
make astonishing and admirable.
at li- wonderful, admirable, astonishing,
exalted, majestic.
a |j^inj: s. wonderfulness, admirableness, greatness,
majesty; terror, astonishment, admiration. Ex.
xix. 16.
TLC9° : Ar. corpus, color, sonus. Job xli. 7.
r J^tmoo; v. a. to exercise a horse.
"ICaqiJO: adj. & s. majestic, full of majesty.
TVontJ^oo::
v. n. & act. to be discontent,
to murmur, to be rebellious, to be quarrel¬
some. Num. xiv. 35.
T'C 8 a person who has lost several
teeth.
v. n. to murmur, to grumble, to
maunder, to grudge. Ex. xv. 24.
/ ^ /
T,C’L<5.: Ar. a species of odoriferous herbs.
Isa. xvii. 6.
a IClC:P: s murmuring, noise, tumult. Ex.
xxxii. 17. 2 Kings ii. 1.
’ion:
KTIOn: v.n. to become knotty or limpy —
of a dough, when coagulating upon the
fire. Bl.
>^m:
/V1V.H1: v. n. to stare at, to gaze at.
*bCjV m - S. a frog. Tigr. >»:: B1 -
S' ✓
: Ar. (j&Ji stinging-nettle. Prov. xxiv. 31.
°I6. **£!>: s. a mule of white and black colour.
K*: v.a. to whip, scourge, to punish, to cudgel,
to beat, to fog. Ex. v. 14.
pass, to be whipped &c. Lev. xix. 20.
caus. to cause or order to be whip¬
ped &c. Acts xxii. 25.
"16.6,: s. whipper, scourger, fagellator, beater,
punisher. Isa. l. 6.
°ICe* 8 . a stroke with a scourge, pi. :
scourges, flagellation. 2 Cor. xi. 24. Job ix. 34.
8 . a shower of rain.
■no i/t-: s- the scourging, flogging, flagellation.
>lVp»A: v. n. to be miserable, wretched, suffer¬
ing, poor ; to be dirty. Ps. xiv. 1.
: act. to make miserable, wretched ;
to soil. Gen. xlix. 4. Lev. xviii. 23.
'HftftA: adj. & s. miserable, wretched, poor ; a
wretch. Rom. vii. 24.
T'flt'A: adj. idem.
s. misery, wretchedness, distress.
imn-. v. n. to walk fast, to hasten. Isa. xxvi. 9.
MCnfi: trs. to make walk fast.
S. one that walks quickly.
s. shield. Al. n£ :
t
ih:... THC ;
T.P : s. a plant, the leaves of which are used in
the preparation of mead and beer,
in : and : buffalo. Amos vi. 12.
in : v. n. & a. to enter, go in, to set. Is con¬
structed with (Dg: or without it with the
accus. and nominative. The phrase, e.g. “ he
entered into my house,” is rendered (J)£:
fl/t: *ln:: Il/tT: ’IH: and in common
language often fl/£: 'IT:: :
“ the sun set."
frin: trs. to enter, cause going in ; to marry
(of a man). Gen. iv. 19.
T’] 1 !: pass, to be introduced or entered; to
be proper or becoming; to become ; to be
necessary ; to be married (of a woman). Gen.
iv. 13. hCPl': : “that for¬
giveness is not due to me,” i. e. “ that I am
not worthy of thy forgiveness.” Esther
iv. 2: nTl'M*: i'EAA
: “ because he was not allowed to enter
by the king's door ”
wn: trs. to marry, a son or a daughter;
act. to marry a wife.
pass, to be married (of a wife).
reiter. to use to marry, to use to
cohabit; to do what is proper , to behave
properly or becomingly.
;m- ad i* current in trade; esp. a full piece of
cotton cloth, having the proper measure of
twenty Abyssinian cubits, and current in
barter.
‘in,: s the entering in; entrance, the inside,
interior, opposed to the (IPCU.::
I'd A,: Ar. mountainous; also, south or
south-west. Joshua xiii. 5. Ps. cvii. 3.
s. farmer, agriculturist. Gen. ix. 20.
YdlC s a scrof ulous pimple. Bl.
HV. v. a. to pay tribute, to be tributary. Gen.
xlix. 15.
'TUI*'.: pass, to be obliged to pay tribute ; to
be paid (of tribute).
v. caus. to cause, make or order to
pay tribute ; to take tribute. Dan. xi. 20.
r MlC: Eth. servant, slave, used in Christian
names; e.g.’} il£: 'X a lH.2VflA°: is good for nothing but to
be fried and eaten. (10) : is sown
about the end of Nahasse, and eaten on the
festival of the Cross. (11) a sort which
has a short stalk. (12) ftrtarcj: *1£A”
(13) P^ft: horse’s mane, with long
husks. In Tigre, they have the following
three sorts: (1) KA. 1 ! 0 : black barley.
(2) 1*1 1*1^: white barley. (3)
white barley, but different to the before-
mentioned sort.
'MlY: s. (1) Eth. : Heb. 113
go ^ t
Ar. aj£ the liver. Ex. xxix. 13. (2) Ar.
G C S>
a bay, gulf, an inlet. Geogr.
in? : s. a wooden bason. Shoa, a table twisted
of reeds. Ex. xxxiv. 1. improperly for JtA:
q.v. xxviii. 36. for “ plate.”
1m: s. sister-in-law. Ruth i. 15.
*M1P: s. a species of lizard. Gen. xlix. 17.
Deut. viii. 15.
>nT: v. a. to explore, spy out, to search, to visit.
Gen. xxvi. 8.
T-MlY: pass, to be explored, &c.
ftlYMlT: caus. to cause to be explored,
visited.
>nF: and s. an explorer, a spy, a
visitor. Gen. xlii. 9.
i
T-ni'*,: . . • J-V:
( H5 )•
'L^: . . • T5:
>n h,: and s. a congregation, a meeting,
an assembly, an association, a society; a band,
a gang, a set, a horde. Gen. xlviii. 4. Ps.
xxii. 25. Rad. Eth.
TflH: v. n. to be useless, unfit, faithless; to
dissemble, to act the hypocrite, to fail. Jer. l. 14.
°l r fl'H: adj. & s. unfit, useless, faithless, false,
a dissembler, a hypocrite.
•HIR: s. pi. 'MIH'H 'P:: a young man, a
youth. Ex. xxiv. 5.
“MTHF: s. unfitness, uselessness, faithlessness,
falseness, dissimulation, hypocrisy.
"ITITlVr: s. idem.
'Wl'HY't': s. youth, age and state of a young
man.
mjP: 8. market, market-place ; place of com¬
merce ; commerce, trade in general. Gen.
x. 11.
/ S'/ ^
vi£C : Ar. jUs- pi. of bracelet, worn on
the wrist. Isa. iii. 20.
>n>n:
M-ITM1: v. n. to be over-curious, saucy; to
care too much about things which one does
not understand; to care about other mens
business.
'MKJ'lrs. an envious glutton.
>nm: v. n. to stoop ; to be crooked, crippled.
Ps. x. 10.
Mm: trs. to make stoop, to bend, to curve,
to make crooked. Ps. lxix. 10.
’T“ r l^1: adj. & s. curved, bent, crooked; a
hump-back.
■MIT: idem.
TTIR 1 : Ar. ku Gr. Aiyvirros, (1) Egypt. Ps.
lxxviii. 12. (2) general appellation of every
country beyond the Red Sea.
"I'flK,: Ar. ^kj' Egyptian ; a foreigner from
any country beyond the Red Sea.
PT: v.a. to make (infants or young cattle)
drink out of one's hand, according to Abys¬
sinian fashion ; the hollow hand being held
close to the infant’s &c. mouth, and filled
with milk; and, when thought necessary, even
the nostrils are stopped, so as to force the
infant &c. to drink.
'I’T- s. Tigr. : Galla and Gurague,
“ gofta,” master, Lord. Gen. xviii. 12. xxiii. 6.
a gentleman, a nobleman, a man of rank and
respectability.
•hp: s. an earthen granary, of the same form
as a smaller than a but often
confounded with it. Matt. iii. 12.
TP£: v.a. to bend the bow, to stretch, to strain,
to extend. Ex. xxxvi. 31. Ps. vii. 12.
pass, to be bent, stretched, &c.
s. an earthen granary, larger than the
but of the same form. Gen. xli. 48.
Isa. xxxix. 2. improperly for “ treasury.”
'IT'!': v. a. to drag, to trail, to force to go.
Matt. v. 41.
TlTT: pass, to be dragged.
s. any means for dragging, trailing,
training; a trail, train; Cant, i, 11, a drag-
chain.
v. n. to have the hair combed in curls.
act. to curl one's hair.
T'PTi: p ass . *p> r pY”
‘l'TP: s. hair which is laid in large curls; hear
which is combed straight and high; concr. a
person with such hair; a haughty, liighminded
person. 1 Cor. xi. 14.
VrVp: S. mastership, lordship, state and rank
of a nobleman or a gentleman. 2 Peter ii. 10.
Isa. xxxiii. 17.
•)¥: s. the leading bull, who goes before the
herd. Num. xxiii. 1. Ps. xxii. 12.
IV v. n. to be beautiful, glorious.
MV act. to beautify, glorify, magnify-, to
praise, celebrate. Ps. xxxiv. 3.
Mil*: idem.
conj. yet, still, not yet, esp. with negation ;
e.g. —: “he is not yet come.”
If: “ it is not yet ” sc. time.
•J\: s. a jar of clay, capable of containing
from 20 to 30 gallons, and used for fluids
and for grain.
“11: conj. but, however. Gen. ii. 14. When
standing by itself without YiC,: or its
*Ti:. . * 11H:
( 176 )
T11H : . . T-ll:
adversative quality is incomplete, and it is
best rendered by “however 11 : with
or ZQ it completes the contrast : “ but.”
: or Ki- contr. from the side, a rib.
Num. xxxiii. 55. Job xxxi. 20 : : *)y.:
“ both his sides.”
•H^A:
v. n. to germinate.
TVfl: s. hq. °|9 D 'fl:: Cant. iv. 4.
'MnA: v. a. to bend.
TOnri: pass. & refl. to be bent, to bow, to
stoop. Gen. xliii. 28. Mark i. 7.
“UPt: s. Genbot, the eighth month of the
Abyssinians, beginning the 7th or 8th of
May.
s. Heb. Ar. garden, used in
Amh. only of the 't’JJ*A: "IFF ' “ garden of
delights, 11 i.e. “ Paradise. 11 Gen. ii. 8.
"IVl : v. n. Ar. “ luxuriavit herba,” to be glo¬
rious, magnificent, majestic, beautiful, delight¬
ful; to flourish. Ps. xxxvii. 35.
Am trs. to glorify, to make flourish. Luke
i. 58. 1 Pet. v. 10. Ps. xxxvii. 34.
S'
s. Ar. jjys^a demon, pi.
"Ihh: adj. beautiful, glorious, magnificent, flou¬
rishing, majestic.
s. beauty, flourishing state, prosperity;
honour, magnificence, splendour, majesty.
init: s. idem. Ps. xxxv. 28.
11T: v. a. to be together, to be joined, join together.
2VIFY: trs. to bring together, to make to meet,
to join together ; e.g. fl^HF: JP"IFYi:
“ May He (God) bring us together (again)
in health (happiness, &c.)! 11 parting wish
with which friends take leave of one
another. Ex. xxxvi. 13.
TIFT: pass. & n. to be joined, to be brought
together, to meet, to come together. Gen.
xxix. 11. Eccl. ix. 11. OD*]f Y“ junc¬
ture (of circumstances) ”
AfHFT: Lq * JVIFY"
TVF: mixture, juncture, meeting. Lud.
1\H: v.a. to bury, to perform the exequies for a
defunct person.
pass, to be buried.
T^H'fl: s. property, estate, wealth. T^H fL -
KH': “ it is mine.” Is used also in the plural;
e.g. TIHP^: F¥lh: “ you are mine ! 11
“ belong to me !” expression of endearment
or flattery. Gen. xxiii. 9.
s. stem, stalk, trunk of plants,
idem. Gen. xlix. 11.
s. temple-bone, ear-bone.
>1KA: v.a. to emasculate, castrate.
rn^A: pass, to be emasculated, castrated.
•KIM.A: adj. emasculated, castrated.
s. a sort of ants.
a certain sort of beads.
T-FM: v.a. to plait, twist, to braid.
pass, to be plaited, &c.
T'TEI: adj* plaited, braided, twisted; s. the
plaiting; a lock or ringlet of hair. Judges
xvi. 19.
ViT: s. a scorpion, a very common animal in
Abyssinia. Deut. viii. 15.
T-TEP*: and r p-T cc l»: s. Ital. “guancia,” cheek.
Ps. xxx. 9.
TW: s. oats. Bl.
>1X4= v a to adorn, to dress handsomely, to
embellish, to decorate, to garnish.
T>FX<5.: pass. & refl. to adorn, dress oneself.
and 17°^: s. ganfo, an Abyssinian
meal, consisting of wheaten flour, which,
with a little boiling water and a large quan¬
tity of butter, is kneaded to a thick paste : it
is then made up into large globular balls
and eaten, especially by lying-in women. Ex.
xvi. 31.
lld.A: v. n. to boil over.
MKA: act. to make or allow the boiling over.
s. the boiling over; that which boils
over.
or s. a cold, cough,
catarrh, rheum.
IT : non occ.
ATF: v.a. to find, discover, find out, invent.
Gen. xxxviii. 20.
TIT: pass, to be found, to exist.
: s. Ar. woollen cloth.
T.TC^: • • W
( 177 )
' 1 H£: . . • “IR ■
IV C.^: Ar. ^J^jLsL millet. Ezek. iv. 9.
IdKH: s. a water-vessel of clay, similar to a
tub, about two feet high, and as much or more
in diameter, of equal width at the top and at
the bottom.
*
*]QKH: Ar. j^>- nut, esp. cocoa-nut. Gen.
xliii. 11.
*l,
: Ar. tjijs- island. Acts xxvii. 16.
TH dfV : s. circumcision. Ex. iv. 26.
IH-CYV'. s. circumcision, state of a circumcised
person.
'1HT: v. a. to excommunicate, to curse. Num.
xxiii. 7.
TTHT: pass, to be excommunicated, cursed.
‘IH't’: s. possession, government, province, do¬
minion. Gen. x. 10. Rad. 1H::
s. excommunication, interdict, anathema,
curse. Rad. *]HT.:
s. prison, imprisonment. Gen. xl. 7.
Rad. ^JH"
°1H TV: s. prisoner. 2 Kings xix. 8.
lHg' : or (from 1H: and >>£• ) s.
free-will, spontaneity. nlHg.: “ by itself,”
“of its own accord,” Acts xii. 10.
1H1H:
™mH: v. n. to stutter, stammer, cf.
Eth. v. n. to be great, large.
Eth. to magnify, to enlarge. Amh.
to indurate, to harden. Nehem. ix. 17.
THj and s. (1) buyer. (2) possessor.
(3) master, Lord, esp. Governor, prince. Num.
xxv. 5. pi. TK'^: and Eph.
i. 21. ^A%*: —: “grand-prince,” “grand-
duke.” Geogr.
: x ?■ s a sort of lentils, said to have the sin¬
gular effect, when eaten too freely, of un¬
loosing the joints of the body. The Tigric
denomination |*in£: (from “to
break”) has perhaps a reference to that
quality.
s. necessity, obligation, constraint, power,
force. n°l^: and needs,” “ of ne¬
cessity,” “by force”; “scarcely,” “hardly.”
p«l£*: AA: “to oblige,” “to force,” “to
2 A
2V1£: A>KA:
( ns )
insist upon," 1 “ to press on a person.” Gen.
xxxiii. 11. °I£*: AA:“ it is necessary,” and
i.q . P^K*: AA: Matt. xiv. 22:
PAT 1 *: “ it is not necessary,” “it matters
not,” “is of no importance. P"!^: “of ne-
necessity,” “rather,” Matt. vi. 30.
2V1£: v. a. to force, oblige, necessitate, con¬
strain, compel. Num. xxiii. 8: T 0 *!: A*7
: “ what forces ,” “ obliges me ? ” “ what
do I care for?” Matt. xiv. 16: A 01 *^
9 n 'l: “ what
forces their departure upon you ?” “ what
obliges you to their departure ” (to let
them go) ?
interj. of astonishment and surprise.
(DJ£: T\E*: “oh wonder!” i.q. 00-11::
v. a. Eth. “percussit.” to injure,
to do harm, to spoil. Gen. xxvi. 29.
pass, to be injured, spoiled, to suffer
harm, injury, or damage.
caus. to cause injury, harm, and
damage being done.
s. a by-room, adjoining apartment (Shoa),
separated from the chief room, which is in
the centre of the house.
ISA: and *]A: Eth. ‘p't’A: Tigr. «f , 't’A»"
Heb. Ar.Jti to kill.
T1KA: pass, to be killed.
t3KA: to struggle, to wrestle, to strive, to
endeavour ; to fight, to combat. Jer. ii. 29 :
AT 11 '!: ^KA-fA^U’:
“ why do ye combat (struggle against) me
in judgment?”
*1K*A: s. fight, conflict, combat. 1 Cor. vii. 11.
s. a precipitous declivity, a precipice. Isa.
xxiv. 17.
>KA: v. n. & act. to be deficient, to be wanting,
insufficient; to want, to lack; to decrease.
Gen. viii. 1: (D'^JCD'T 1 *: >^A: “and the
water decreased .” Isa. lx. 20.
A>£A: trs. to produce want; to lose. Ex.
v. 8 : «F*'lT n : AF'b.K’A': “ ye shall not
diminish ought (thereof) : ” xxi. 10. Matt,
xvi. 26. Eccl. iii. 6.
caus. to cause and produce want,
lack, deficiency.
s. want, lack, deficiency, decrease.
’)\K.A- adj. wanting, lacking, not having suffi¬
cient.
•Jt.£a°: s. i.q. Prov. x. 21: HAH
^(D': >KA°: KT^A-: “ die from want
of heart.”
IK 00 : v. n. to be side-ways, to be secluded.
't’^K 00: 9° 0XJ d °f the way, to go apart, to
go secretly. Ruth iii. 4. Lament, ii. 21.
*£ IK°°: idem. Gen. xxxviii. 16.
l^T 1 *: s. a place out of the way ; a convent,
monastery. Ps. lxxviii. 12.
s. an hermit, a monk.
v. n. to be light-green,
to turn light-green.
•tar; »• a way, road, path; trop. custom,
fashion, law. Ex. xviii. 20.
s. i.q. *Ki: side, rib.
adj. & s. hurtful, injurious, unwholesome;
a man who likes to do injury. Rad. ::
s. Eth. *p^'A." Heb. Ar. Jjlj
one who kills, a murderer, a man-slayer. :
intens. “a wilful murderer.” Num.
xxxv. 18. Rad. IKA::
s. that which is killed, esp. a carcase.
Job xxxix. 30. Isa. xxvi. 21. Rad. *]KA”
want, need, necessity, a requisite, busi¬
ness, desire. Gen. xlvii. 24. Rad. 1-»KA "
IKK: v.a. i.q. A*]£:: to force, necessitate, to
oblige; to injure, to produce want, to spoil.
Luke xxii. 35: A'l.V/T': IK K'-T-LK!: “ Has
it done you any harm ? ” “ Have you been
the worse for it?” Eccl. vi. 2. T°*!:
JEK’S: “ What do I care for it?”
: non occ.
nKK: v. n. to glory, to boast, to pride one¬
self. Num. xv. 30.
Amh. non occ. Eth. >K*>K : “ pul-
savit.”
A'!>K>K: v. a. to thunder . Job xl. 9.
■CR-XR-. s. pit, ditch. Gen. xiv. 10.
s. a wall, a partition. Ex. xiv. 22.
: ... “IT 9": ( 179 ) I'T?": . •.
s gid'digiddy, a bird of prey, a
species of heron.
*]£*: v.n. Eth. and Tigr. i. q. I*®:: Amh. to
mistake, to forget, to deviate, to err. Lev. iv. 2.
tIKd.: pass, to be mistaken or to have
forgotten.
caus. to cause or produce a mistake,
to make forget.
8. sweepings, rubbish.
s. bq. 'T a lR'Gft“-- Eccl. ii. 2.
s. oats.
1g: s. a thatch, a roof of straw ; a small thatched
house ; a bird's nest. Deut. xxii. 6.
1g9°: Godjam, name of a large province in
Abyssinia, through which passes the Abys¬
sinian Nile.
s - an ° w ^
’X’X-
TTO: i.g 'T'iK t PK t P: Vid. K\: Ibis, a bird of prey.
UJE= s Eth. a grievous sin, a crime. Ex.
xxxiv. 7. Rad. *]£*]?::
P ®: v.a. to gnaw off entirely, to consume wholely.
P*V : s. a stable for a horse or mule.
TfllOO: v. a. & n. to bring together, to join and
fit together ; to suit.
1-10100: pass. & n. to be joined, fitted, suited ;
to join, to suit.
T^moo; intens. & recipr. to fit to each
other, to suit each other. Ex. xxvi. 3.
act. to bring and join together.
Ex. xxxvi. 16. 2 Chr. xxxiv. 11.
“I'ftro: s. the joining, suture, juncture; in
poetry, a rhyme, the rhythm. 2 Chr. xxxv. 25 :
OPT, : “ITT 0 : fcfioijcn* ;
“they fitted together the rhymes of their
lamentation.”
*IT9°: T\ti- *'IfDOO; and Tlflioo::
°IT9 n : 2 i.q. TiJ moo : and imoo :
act.
: s. a forceps, fire-tongs. Ex. xxxviii. 3.
Isa. vi. 6. Vid. : and PXg-:
an:
TCEL: s. a species of grass. Shoa. ’X’V'ICEL"
Isa. xxxv. 7.
P cq,: non occ.
T^CCL: and T^tLL: v. act. to stamp, to
trample, beat the ground (of horses) ; to
pound (in a mortar); to clapper, to chatter,
to rattle; to stumble. Isa. lix. 10. Ezek.
iii. 13. Hos. x. 14. Jer. xlvii. 3.
TO CEl: act. to pound, stamp to dust, pul¬
verise. Jer. Ii. 20, 21.
IX*: Eth. s. face, front; meton. the exterior or
front-margin on a written page. 'IX: fl<^
Ini’: “ acceptable presents.” Gen. xxiv. 53.
'LX*: s. beauty, fairness, ornament, adornment,
attire. Gen. ii. 1. xxiv. 47.
A1X: v. denom. to be fair, beautiful, adorned,
beautifully dressed.
AfTLX: act. to adorn. Ex. xxviii. 37.
ixn: v. n. to be wounded, hurt, used of horses,
mules, &c., when wounded under the saddle.
Bl.
TlXfl: to squirt, to spirt. Bl.
IX adj. beautifid, ornamental, luxurious,
splendid, sumptuous. Ps. cxxii. 7.
v. a. & n. Eth. mO:: to push or run upon
any thing. Luke vi. 49. to compress, oppress ;
to use violence ; to be violent, oppressive, unjust.
T'14.: pass, to be pressed, oppressed, sup¬
pressed, to suffer violence and injustice.
T34/ intens. to press, to oppress, to suppress,
to commit violence, oppression and injustice.
Ex. xxii. 21.
M- Luke viii. 45.
s. Eth. ‘7£J.O:: pressure, oppression, vio¬
lence, injustice. Gen. vi. 11. Ex. i. 13. Lev.
xix. 13.
s. Tigr. a tassel. Bl.
s. Judges xix. 19.
. s. hair dressed in large curls on the sin¬
ciput or fore-part of the head.
2 a 2
TA: • • • P*A°fT>A:
( iso )
a Z<$JF: • • • ftfl'nA:
adj. & s. oppressive, violent, unjust; fri¬
volous.
s - the small-pox. Shoa, ::
'14,^ Eth. i.q. Rom. iii. 5.
"1G.O: Eth. i.q. ^ a-- Prov. xvi. 12.
v. a. to undress, to pull off (the skin from
the body, the peel &c. from plants &c.); to
peel off, to rob. Gen. xxxiv. 29. Ex. iii. 29.
pass.
* aiyixa : caus.
s. huslc, peel, chaff. Job xiii. 25. Isa,
xl. 24. xli. 2. xlvii. 14.
14,4.: v n to be very fat, corpulent and unwieldy,
of men and animals.
m:
ID" ID.g/t’: t ait, the twenty-seventh letter
of the Amliaric alphabet. It corresponds to
the tD in the Hebrew, and to the b in the
Arabic language; and is pronounced with a
sudden explosion, after a hard pressure of the
fore-part of the tongue against the roots of
the upper teeth. Its most cognate letter is
X: for which it is often exchanged.
A": (or ^ptJA°:) an Abyssinian dish, con¬
sisting of fried barley-flour kneaded together
with a large quantity of melted butter.
(R/\: v. a. & n. Eth. XAA- to hate, to be ini¬
mical, hostile to, to abhor.
TIT) A: pass, to be hated, abhorred. Lev.
vii. 18.
T^IA: intens. to hate entirely; recipr. to
litigate with one another.
A«1A: act. to accuse, complain against, to
charge.
fllA: Heb, Ar. JL dew. Gen. xxvii. 28.
*tja: v. a. to throw, cast, fling ; to put, to place.
Gen. ii. 21. xviii. 5.
'I’fTjA: pass, to be cast, thrown, flung, placed.
't , : fllA'Hh: “I sunk into
a deep mire.” Eccl. vii. 24: £ < p'|59 D : fll
A 4 ! 1 : “ and its distance is great."
hfllAl: act. & intens. to deepen, to be very
deep or great. A"A^<5.
A,A: IP A*: “to the whole body of all
Israel.”
A«lA t P: AfllAI’:: Num. xxi. 18.
AfimAl»: caus. to make deep, to lay deep ;
to deepen, to sound a depth.
HIA.^*: adj. deep, profound. Prov. xx. 5.
Isa. li. 10.
TA^>: s. depth, abyss, profoundness, the deep.
Ps. Ixix. 2. Isa. li. 10.
TA^T: s. Shoa. a coloured stripe along the edge
and through the middle of clothes. Al.
TA't’: s. the soot produced on a pan by fire.
Vid. Bl.
fllAt: Vid. XA^P"
HI A HI A: non occ. Ar. JLib “commovit.”
A MnAfllA: act. to suspend, to hang up;
to hang. Gen. xl. 10. Ex. xxv. 12.
't’THlAHIA: idem & pass. Ex. xiii. 16.
Luke xvii. 2.
AKIlAfflA: n. to be suspended or hanging.
■nmAfllA: refl. to entangle oneself. Isa.
xxiv. 18.
f n A°f n A: non occ.
tlPA°PA: .. • monmiro: ( 181 )
tniHUfnon...
TIP'A'C'A: v. n. to walk quickly.
f^ATTA: s. one who walks quickly.
fllA<5,: v. a. to take, seize, to snatch away, to
catch fish with a fishing-hook.
tmA4: pass, to he taken, snatched, caught.
Eccl. vii. 29.
TAG.: s. a shirt embroidered with silk, and
worn by ladies of rank.
T9 11 : s. the wood of a saddle.
m°9: Vid. K 01 ?::
fflanou: v. n. to be twisted, wound up, to be
perverse.
ftmooCTO; act. to twist, to pervert, to distort.
Isa. x. 2. Jer. iii. 9.
J\«T|anan: idem. Amos ii. 7. Micah iii. 9.
2 Pet. iii. 16.
TffiCTOOTJ: p ass< to be perverted.
moqtnj : adj. perverse, cross, perverted, corrupt,
distorted. Deut. xxxii. 5.
s. perverseness, ill-humour, cross¬
ness. Ps. cxxv. 5.
mtrofj: s. an intermediate sort of grain be¬
tween barley and wheat,
flicnxp: v. a. to dip, to immerse.
ftlX) 00 *!’: act. to baptize. .
pass. & refl. to be immersed,
baptized; to dive.
m Q1 l < l? : s. one who dips, immerses. Jer.
xlviii. 33.
; s. that which is immersed. Ha'll:-.
“ immersed (i. e. pressed out) grapes or rai¬
sins,” “ wine.” Num. vi. 4.
T9 D< 1 >; F : s - baptism.
T9 n *tl: s. a carcass, carrion. Lev. v. 2.
: s. a scar. Bl.
T9 1J ‘flflTlf|: s. a bad fire, which does not
burn well. —: ftA: “ to burn badly.”
friou^: s. chalk.
fI]CJi)]-|H : v - a - 1° twist, distort, put out of joint.
Ps. xlii. 9.
r P(Tl aD HH‘> pass. & n. to be distorted, to be
out of joint.
on : v. a. to wind round, to twine, to
wreath, to wrap round. Gen. xxvii. 19.
T III on II) on: pass, to be wound round, &c.
Gen. xxxix. 11.
1116.: Vid.
Vid. *£::
n. pr. Ter, the fifth month of the Abys-
sinians, commencing on the eighth or ninth
day of January.
adj. pure, unmixed, unadulterated, raiv,
unprepared, primitive, original, genuine. Gen.
xii. 9. —:"ft{JA: “puregrain.” —iTCTH”
“original Ethiopic,” opp. to “the
translation.”
and 8. spear, lance; war. Gen.
xiii. 17. Num. xxvi. 2.
mC tJD, 'H: s. a bottle of glass or earthenware.
v. n. to be hot, sultry.
ftTfll<5.£.:
| v. n. to stretch oneself.
T<.C= s. Ar. “ acuta cuspis hastae.”
breast-plate, habergeon. Eph. vi. 14.
TCfl: s. tooth. Gen. xlix. 12. PTUTT:—:
“elephant’s tooth,” “ivory.” Eth.
“ dens molaris.”
TClVs. a sucking elephant.
TC |M 19 ij : s. one who has large teeth. (A nick¬
name). Bl.
to ioothe, to get teeth, cf. Eth. 0£|*|::
ft m 41*1: V. a. to blunt one's teeth ; n. to be¬
come blunt. Jer. xxxi. 29. Ezek. xviii. 2.
v. a. to fasten, to affix.
v. a. to fill up, to stuff.
tm^oo: pass, to be filled up, crammed,
stuffed.
T£T: s. Eth. and Tigr. goods, possessions,
property. Eccl. v. 19.
s. i.q. a black pied horse.
r VCf\. s. i.q. Tin^*: the civet-cat.
m^m^: V. n. to doubt, to think, to suppose.
Ps. l. 21. Esther iv. 13.
n. to doubt.
ftm«5.m^: trs. to make doubt, to excite
suspicion, to give offence, to lead to scep¬
ticism. 1 Cor. viii. 13.
s a doubter, a sceptic, an heretic.
'VC‘*\6: . . . T^MT 0 :
( 182 )
m3» m I ,r 1': . . . 0111:
s doubt, suspicion, scepticism, heresy.
Ps. cxix. 165.
mOt = Ar. j:\ijb the tamarisk. Jer. xlviii. 6.
in.fl: S. smoke, steam.
fart: v. n. to smoke, to emit smoke. Gen. xv. 17.
Am, 1*1: act. to smoke, fumigate, perfume.
Ex. xxx. 7.
Aftfart: caus. to cause or order f umigation
or smoking.
m3>: v.n. to be small, little.
Am?*: act. to make or consider as little,
small; to despise. Ezek. xx. 16. Job xix. 18.
Nehem. ii. 19.
THIS*: pass. & n. to be small, little, insig¬
nificant, and to be considered as such ; to be
slighted, held in contempt. Ps. xviii. 27.
2 Cor. xiii. 7.
m>: AA: v. a. to spout, to squirt, to spirt.
*P3i: Eth. adv. & adj. strongly, hardly; strong,
tight, firm.
Am3>: act. to constrain, compress, esp. to
gird.
S' m : pass. & refl. to be constrained, girt;
to gird oneself. Ex. xii. 11.
AflS’mS*: trs. to gird. Ps. xviii. 39.
rtl3*AA: v.a. to wind round, to roll in, wrap in
any thing, to involve.
’I'm‘PAA: pass, to be rolled in, wrapped up,
involved.
TS»AA: s. any thing that serves for enrolling,
wrapping in, esp. swaddling-cloth, swathing-
cloth ; a girdle, belt, a turban.
m*!* 00 : v. n. & act. to be useful, advantageous ;
to improve, to mend (clothes, &c.).
Am‘pHH: V.a. to use, to profit by, to make
useful.
Tm^ 010 : pass, to be used, profited by, to be
turned to advantage; to be mended. Ezek.
xxxvi. 10.
mS* 01 !: s. one who uses, takes advantage, pro¬
fits ; a mender (of clothes &c.)
s. <* n y thing useful; a botch, a patch.
Luke v. 36.
7^7° '• s. profit, advantage, utility, use, gain.
mS’O'jS’: s. loose bowels, diarrhoea.
: s. T’ek’em't, the second Abyssinian
month, beginning on the tenth or eleventh
of October.
ms*^: V. n. to be or become black.
Am3»-4 : act. to blacken. 2 Chr. xxix. 8 :
d.J 1 : A^T^C: “for a darkening of
the face,” i. e. “ for an abhorrence.” Eccl.
vii. 3.
Tm^i^: pass. & refl. to be blackened or
darkened, to blacken or darken oneself.
Aflfll?*^: caus. & trs. to cause blackening ;
to blacken. 1 Cor. xiii. 5.
adj. black, dark.
'P'PCH: s. soot, as produced by the smoke of
fire. Vid. TA’T" Bl.
T*3*''^f': s. black colour, blackness. Cant. v. 11.
Jer. xxx. 6.
013* l*|: v. n. to wink with the eyes ; to snuff a
candle. Ex. xxv. 38.
T little, a little, a small quantity, fern.
'{‘‘tll'.'P:: J°b xvi. 22.
: s. littleness, paucity, fewness. Num.
xxvi. 54. Zech. iv. 10.
ms*#}: V. a. to consider as little, to slight, to
despise.
1-013^1: v. n. & pass, to be considered as
little, to be slighted, to be contemptible.
T*S*S*T: adj. small, inconsiderable, contemptible.
Matt. v. 19. 1 Kings xiii. 33. Ps. cxv. 13.
HI 3*1113*: v. a. a transposition of letters, i.q.
3 > m3*m : to tread. Isa. lxiii. 3.
mn : v. a. Eth. mil®:: to suck, as an infant.
Amn: trs. to make suck, to suckle. Ps.
lxxviii. 71.
fllH: v. n. to be early, &c. Vid. XH ::
^nn : s. a small wooden plate or dish.
& s x
*T|TI: Ar.juUo a species of dates. Isa. xxii. 18.
m r fl: particle indicating, according to its
sound, dropping.
m-n:...Tmnn: ( 183 ) mnn:... Mmnmn-.
—: 2\A*- i-q- Mflinmn: “to drop,”
“ fall in drops.”
to cause dropping, to drop.
s J
fl>'f| : s. Ar. a brick, a tile. Gen. xi. 3.
mnrt: V. a. to roast slightly, to fry. Ex. xii. 8.
Tmnrt: pass, to be fried. Lev. xxiii. 14.
1 Chr. xvi. 3. ’
mniVL: s. a sort of thin cakes.
flint: v. a. Ar. “operuit.” Eth. “an-
nexit,” “pressit.” (1) to lay close to (as a
narrow cloth to the body &c.), to cement, to
glue or solder on. (2) to guard, take care, to
keep, observe, to protect, preserve.
Afilfl*!*: intens. to observe &c. closely; to
hold on, to do any thing without inter¬
mission. Num. x. 6:
“ if they blow closely ,” “ without inter¬
mission.'" Deut. xxvii. 2. to cement.
Tflin*!*: pass, to be closely annexed, to be
cemented, glued, soldered; to be observed,
kept, guarded, protected, preserved.
^nint: intens. to lay on closely. Jer.
xiii. 11.
T fT in t l > : pass. & n. to be glued, cemented, to
cling to, to adhere closely. Gen. xxxiv. 8.
tmnnt: intens. recipr. & reiter.
iMOb: ^flinn^A*: “andbeing
one, they will be preserved together Matt,
ix. 17. Inf. outward obser¬
vances, Luke xvii. 20. Ps. cxxx. 3.
if thou wilt closely
observe sins.”
mn<£ : s. an observer, keeper, a guardian, guard,
preserver, protector.
flint: s. observation, keeping, guarding, guard,
observance, protection, preservation, the post,
station of a guardian, watch. Habakkuk ii. 1.
idem. Jos. viii. 14. hiding-place, ambush.
*P r fl«¥»: s. a piece of dress lying close to the
body, jacket, waistcoat. Ex. xxviii. 4. “ephod.”
nUlfl: non occ.
Ttnnn: v. n. to be wise, prudent, shrewd ; to
act wisely, &c. Ex. i. 10.
mnn: and xnn: v. n. to be narrow, tight,
strait.
Tinnn: pass, to be made narrow; to be
straitened ; trop. to be distressed, oppressed.
ftrtmnn: trs. to make narrow, to straiten, to
oppress, distress.
flin.11: adj. (1) wise, skilful, prudent, pi. fllfl,
HI:: In Shoa, those mechanicians who form
a distinct caste and tribe, different from the
other Abyssinians. They indeed observe
most of the ceremonies of the Abyssinian
Church; they are baptized and circumcised,
and are admitted to the communion; but
among themselves, they are said to have a
religion of their own: in fact, the Shoa people
in general consider them as disguised Jews;
but how far this is grounded, is still a matter
of doubt. They themselves deny the asser¬
tion; but admit that they form a peculiar
family, whose ancestors, they say, came into
Shoa from the north-west. They have three
or four establishments in Shoa, which they
seem to have instituted for the maintenance
of their old people: one of them is a sort of
nunnery, all its inhabitants being T’abeeban
females, whose chief occupation is pottery.
The king of Shoa maintains the T’abeeban, as
his workmen; and regularly appoints one of
them as their chief, who is responsible for
the whole caste.
( 2 ) man : L q- xan: narrow, strait.
'pri'fl: s. wisdom, prudence, circumspection.
TPt: s. young, sucking cattle. Pfl"!: —:
“a young sucking lamb.” Gen. iv. 3.
: T abita, a leavened bread-cake.
St *
mm£: s. Ar. pistol, a fowling-piece,
small gun.
& s s
mn£: and mn£0: s. Ar. A*ub nature, cha-
*
racter, temper. Num. xiii. 18.
(Tl 11 flirt: v. n. to trot, of horses &c. Ps. xix. 5.
Judges xviii. 21.
hiflinmn: v. a. to drop, to let fall in
drops. Ps. lxviii. 8. Cant. v. 13.
T^ninmn:
• • •
ayHiJiJ:
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i ii, y. - • • • m ‘I > : v. n. to beware, to take care. Ex.
28. Matt. vi. 1.
m r 5‘l>'W: s. a certain plant.
s. fern. (D'TJi.Si'F: fortune-teller,
soothsayer. Lev. xx. 27. 2 Kings xxi. 6.
Till: s. carcass, i.q.
s. the olden time, time of old, antiquity,
former time. Gen. vi. 4.
dl'T'h: s. fore -arm.
s. hare, rabbit. Lev. xi. 6.
fllfCDT: non occ.
TmForr: to resist . Num. xiv. 41.
s. garden-rue, “ruta hortensis”
(botany).
W: => a certain tree with small whitish
leaves, which the Abyssinians use for their
beer.
s. Ar. H? Chald. NDYltp. pi.
(RY^fl:: peacock. 1 Kings x. 22.
TVQ,: s. candle, taper.
* T lO , 7 TJ : s. Eth. Heb. D)SJtp Ar. taste. Ex.
xvi. 31.
*T ^ x
Eth. s. Ar. t- iyiUa an idol. pi.
s. an idolater. 2 Kings xxiii. 7.
(ILK: s. a strong hoar-frost.
'n'HOTj: s. T’azma, a certain sort of bees, which
produce a peculiar aromatic honey, used as
medicine. It is found especially in Agame
andTemben. Matt. iii. 4: P^KTIOTJ: o*J£:
improperly for Pn^:OT?C : “ wild honey.”
(Tl.^: s. a spongy excrescence on the animal
body.
(D P*!*: v * a. Eth. “ certo scivit.” Amh. to ask,
inquire. Gen. xxiv. 47.
't*(DP < l > : pass, to be asked.
TfD.PP‘i > : recipr. & reit. to ask one another,
to ask frequently. Ex. xviii. 7.
s. question, inquiry, query. Gen. xliii. 7.
s. Vid. ::
mg-: and Xg-: s. hydromel, mead. P0^1:
LL * V>
—: “wine.
Tg: s. Tig. 9n<5.tJ:: a calf, a young ox or cow.
Gen. xviii. 7.
m^: better XJJ: s. grace. HA: —: rich.
Gen. xiii. 2.
rilJT: v. a. (1) to be a support, serve for a sup¬
port. (2) Eth. m°10: to inhere, cohere, adhere;
cling to.
v. n. to support oneself, esp. to lean
one's head.
refl. to cling to each other, to adhere
to each other. Ex. xxviii. 22.
V. a. to support the head with some¬
thing. Matt. viii. 20.
mil: and JOl: v. a. to bind up, to dress (a
wound). 2 Chr. xxviii. 15. Ps. cxlvii. 3.
Isa. i. 6.
mm ’• v. a. to drink. Gen. xxiv. 14.
hmm*. trs. to make drink, to water, to
irrigate, to soak. Gen. ii. 6.
recipr. to drink with each other in
company. Isa. v. 22.
s. a drinker, one who drinks. Isa. xxiv. 9.
P 1 *T) : s. a baboon, a sort of little monkeys.
'P't*: s. cotton.
S' C '
ALP 1 : s. Ar. a little bird in Abyssinia,
as frequent in that country as the sparrow
in Europe. Lev. xi. 17. for Isa.
xxxiv. 11.
m'KJ’.P: s. the fist. Ex. xxi. 28.
m: ; e.g. TCLL'lEELAlh: for TC£n<£.P
Alh: “I am oppressed.” For ’KTOL’^P:
Tigr. ■KT0JE-1;: the Amharic Bible has
generally r T < I >01 !ELE: “the sitter,”
“dweller,” instead of r t*‘I ,01 Ifll. : from Tl*
*rom::
EEL: KA: v. n. to be complete. 1 Kings iii. 20 :
A/F: EEL: |\A: “when it was full night,”
“ when' the night was complete .”
0,LA°°: v. n. Eth. XA 00 ” Ar. jjiii! to be or
become dark, obscure, dim, gloomy. Ex. x. 14.
hCtlA 00 : act. to darken, to obscure ; trop.
to distress, to grieve. Job xxxi. 16.
TlIlA 00 : pass, to be obscured, darkened.
KflLTLA 00 : i.q- KCLLA°°::
OLA 01 !: s. Eth. BrA 00 ^” Ar. dark¬
ness, obscurity, dimness, gloomy appearance.
cf. Heb. and MJD 1 ??.
6 P»A’P: s. a large bird of prey. Bl.
OLAfll: v, a. to empty a vessel from its fluid
contents. Jer. xlviii. 12.
BEL 01 !: s. (1) the sole of the foot. (2) sole of the
shoe. (3) shoe. Gen. xiv. 23.
KEEL 01 !: v. denom. to put on one’s feet, as
shoes ; to shoe. Ezek. xvi. 10.
•fCELcn!: pass, to be shod, to have or to put shoes
on; to tread. Ps. xci. 13.
LLLOD^: v. a. Eth. (Dfiln: Tigr. (DiYYL::
to add, to increase, augment. Ex. ix. 34.
Hos. ix. 15: H^: A A 111.
9°C9°: “I will love them no more. 1 '
Ezek. xviii. 13: CLL9°C: P 0, J.(l>n£;
“ who takes in addition .,” “ takes more profit
than he is allowed to do.”
•f-OL 00 ^: pass, to be added, augmented,
increased.
TCLL 01 ! 010 ^: pass, intens. & reiter. to be
augmented continually. Dan. iv. 22.
0CL°9^ : s * ° ne w h° adds, augments.
EtE9°C: s. fem. addition, increase,
augmentation, supplement. Gen. xxiii. 17.
rft 0, l£: i.q. ELL^C”
LLL 00 ! 1 : v. n. to be quiet, calm, composed, to be
steady-minded. Mark v. 15. Job iii. 26.
; s. & adj. calmness, composure, steadi¬
ness of habit and temper; calm, quiet, com¬
posed, steady in habits. Gen. xxv. 27.
2 B
lCC ,in : • • • cp>'flT:
( 186 )
cancan:... Tacvix,:
ac ,,,, iiu ,n v. act. to wind the rings inside
of a straw thatch.
raCOHDCatro: pass, to he wound, of the
inner rings of a straw thatch.
TCa^Cacro: n - to suppurate, of an inflamed
eye. Lev. xxi. 20.
CCC , J ,,,, C ol J: S. one whose eye suppurates.
cp.TD^Ulo; s. the rings of straw and brush¬
wood, inside of a thatch, which keep it to¬
gether.
cp><5,: s. a fan for flies, made of horse-hair,
ac^rt: V. a. & n. to finish, to end, terminate,
conclude. Gen. vi. 16.
Tac^ri: pass, to he finished, ended, termi¬
nated, concluded, done.
ac<5,fi: s. one who finishes, a finisher, termi¬
nator, the latter.
: s. that hy which something is finished,
the end , termination, adj. finishing, ending,
latter, last, ultimate.
ca^3*: s. the moon. Gen. xxxvii. 9.
s. Tsh’erak’, a fabulous sort of canni¬
bals, resembling man, but supplied with a
short tail. Another kind are the 7\6'X‘ q.v.
s - rag, old worn-out cloth.
: s a little bird which picks out the foul
flesh from the wounds on the backs of horses,
mules, cattle, &c.
s. mud, dirt, mire; clay, loam. Ex. i. 14.
ac^ac* : V. a. to lay a rag (o^aC^Ca*^:
or ouga^Ca^:) round the joined edges
of the baking-pan and its cover-plate, to pre¬
vent the heat from escaping.
CCtn.: s. the jumping, hopping, skipping.
ainc= s a white mule.
can P: v. n. to skip, hop, jump.
acnm: v. a. to seize, lay hold on, to keep, take
into and keep by the hand. Deut. xv. 7 :
^in? 0 : ft^rapm*: “nor shut thy
hand.” Phil. iv. IS: nacnTlh: T.H.:
“ when I received .” Ruth i. 20. Job xxvi. 8.
2 Kings iv. 27.
Tacnm: pass, to be seized, &c.
aVn'P: s. a fist; ,a handful. 1 Kings xvii. 12.
Isa. xl. 12.
cancan: v. a. to fold one's hands ; to sprout,
to shoot forth, to burgeon, of plants. Yid.
£<5.£<5."
t\ Can Can: act. to clap the hands. Ps.
xlvii. 1.
CECl: v. a. Eth. XOl:: Heb. to impose, put
upon, to charge ; to saddle. Gen. xxii. 3. xxiv. 2.
Mark x. 16. 1 Tim. iv. 14.
TIfl.1: pass. Gen. xxxvii. 25.
ac"l: s. Tsh’an, a measure for grain, eight
2Chr. ii. 10.
tgCT: the thigh ; the hip. • Gen. xxiv. 2. xxxv.
22. P —: : “ thigh- servant,” i.e. “ con¬
cubine.”
CCt/i: n. pr. China. P —: f|6.: and merely
lU.i : china ware. Geogr.
aiVI>: v. n. & act. to be narrow , strait ; to
straiten, to oppress. Matt. vii. 13. Ps. xviii. 6.
T'Cai < I > : paas. to be contracted, straitened;
trop. to be oppressed, harassed, embarrassed,
distressed.
ftac} < l > :
ftfiacv*:
trs. to straiten, put into straits, to
throng ; to harass, to embarrass,
to grieve, to distress, to oppress.
Luke viii. 42. 1 Sam. xiv. 29.
Isa. xi. 13.
s. shoulder, esp. shoulder-blade. Gen.
ix. 23. xxiv. 15. Tigr. Tim::
s. & adj. narrowness, straits, thronging,
crowding ; anxiety, distress, anguish, grief, op¬
pression ; narrow, oppressing, &c.
: s the brain. Tigr. PA ::
s. narrowness, &c. i. q.
acii*: s. the imposition, charging, charge, sad¬
dling ; a load, burden. P — : ViJS! •*!: “a
beast of burden.’ 1 ' 1 Rad.
s. Tigr. '“J'H V " a cancer ; a virulent
swelling or sore. Bl.
amc : s a rod. 2 Sam. vii. 14. Ps. lxxxix. 32.
amx.: v. n. & act. to abort, to miscarry. Ex.
xxi. 22.
ftaCYlX.: trs. to cause and produce abortion.
Tacnx.: pass, to be carried off, as an abor¬
tus ; to be born beforetime.
••• caller:
( 187 )
■HOL'P: . . . ftT-^Ti:
and s. abortus, abortion.
tP’TEtL: s. pebble; gravel; (Tigr. MCI 0 ")
rocky ground. (Tigr. Vl”Yl' , d» i ::) esp. inner
court of royal houses. Amos ix. 9.
s. one who is betrothed; engaged by a
marriage-contract, spouse. Fem. ::
Rad.
tUYli: v. n. to be brave, valiant, valorous; to be
manly ; to be able, well qualified, to be ready,
prepared. Acts xxi. 13.
CQAl^f adj. & s. brave, valiant, valorous, manly,
able, virtuous, ready. 2 Sam. xvii. 10.
gtfctl: V. n. Eth. XdPO : Tigr. X(D^ : to cry
aloud, to exclaim, to call. Gen. iv. 10. to emit
a sound or noise.
trs. to make exclaim, to cause or order
to cry or to call.
*gci,‘Tf|9 n n , *I: s. a certain beast of prey, proba¬
bly of the leonine family.
ttfcTl -T: S. exclamation, vociferation, crying, a
noise. Gen. xviii. 20. Ex. ii. 23.
HIT: adj. strong, valorous, fit, able, respectable,
rich.
tfMD’: or LV,U1>: s. Eth. KAW : salt. Gen.
xiv. 3.
CUT 1 *.: s. a crier, exclaimer, one that makes a
noise. 2 Sam. xxiii. 23. HA”? : — : “a mu-
Sudan,” 2 Kings iii. 15.
caavr: non occ.
ftCElCDT: v. a. to amuse, to entertain, to tell a
story, to relate, record. Ex. iv. 28.
T^UDT '■ to play, joke, to jest, to talk. Gen.
xxi. 9.
TtaTfl)!*: idem.
CEKDjh: s. play, jest, joke, talk, conversation ..
: s. Tsh’ad, a certain Abyssinian shrub, the
leaves of which are, by Mohammedans, used
as a substitute for tea; but without effect, as
the beverage has very little flavour.
W?: s. that which in a harvest is lost or
thrown away; stubble, chaff. 1 Kings iv. 28.
Job vi. 5. Rad. frCO>£::
s. stomach. Ex. xii. 9.
caller: s. an Abyssinian plant.
tR.CCt’T’: s. chicken, a young bird in general,
Num. xxiv. 21.
EftjCCI/l: S. a small ant. Bl.
GElCi.: s- a branch, bough, twig; meton. the tip.
lappet, corner, end of a thing. Gen. viii. 11.
Ex. xii. 34. xxv. 26. = —: “ear-lap,"
Ex. xxix. 20. pn/r : —: “cornice of a house.”
Matt. iv. 5.
ttfXj s. a garment ($X„:) which is eight times
doubled.
(from ?) v. n. to encamp.
1 Sam. xxix. 1.
s< an encampment (of soldiers), a camp,
an army, host, a soldier. Gen. xlix. 19. Ex.
xiv. 7.
U.ldJ ' v. n. & act. (from 'ThX.l") to be co¬
vered, veiled, enveloped. Matt. xiii. 15. Isa.
vi. 10.
C*lX,m:for XX.m: Job xxi. 33. Vid.XX.ffi::
tdd.tlld,: to pluck off, to strip off, to un¬
leave; to chop off. Dan. iv. 14.
ft:
ft: ft#^: p ait, the twenty-ninth letter of
the Amharic alphabet, is pronounced with a
sudden explosion or puffing off of breath from
between the lips.
ft'Ai^’: Eur. planet. Geogr. Better rtJPX.:
q. v.
ftX. t T’AJ l *fl : better than ftX.^A.P'fi: Gr.
Hapa.K\t]Tbs, “ the Paraclete,” the Holy Spirit.
Also the festival of the effusion of the Holy
Spirit: Whitsunday, Pentecost. John xv. 26.
fterfirrvr: s. & adj. Eur. Protestant.
ft Eur. s. potatoes. Geogr.
SL\$ l>A: Eur. s. peninsula.
ft*ih 01 i‘l: and sometimes : s. Gr.
(irayopLEvat, sc. r/yepai, the complementary
days, which after the lapse of twelve months,
each of which has but thirty days, are to be
intercalated, in order to make up the full
solar year. After the three years of Mat¬
thew, Mark, and Luke, five days, P’agwemen,
are added to each respective year; but the
2 b 2
AAft: . . • XAOD:
( 188 )
XAl 1 : . . . *rK<*0£ :
P’gagwemen of St. John’s year has six days,
that being the leap-year.
s. Gr. UaTnrag. Archbishop, Metropo¬
litan , Prelate in general. Vicl. Lud. s. v.
Sometimes, however, it is used for A.*!*: A
*fl’- sometimes for A.ftjlVP£rt:: A. 1 !*: A
Atl: and A.*!*: AA^' pi- A.3»l: AA*l
^: “ chief Prelate ,” z. e. “ Patriarch,” a title
given to the chief dignitaries of the Romish,
the Greek (Constantinople), the Coptic (Alex¬
andria, or rather Cairo), and the Syrian (An¬
tioch) Churches.
K:
K: ts’adai, the thirtieth letter of the
Amharic alphabet. Its pronunciation resem¬
bles that of m: adding only a little sibilation ;
therefore it is often exchanged for fR: and
for 0::
XA: v. n. & a. Eth. XAA: to hate, abhor, be
inimical, hostile to.
'TXA: pass, to be hated, suffer enmity.
TXA: recipr. to bear hatred one to another,
to litigate one against another.
AXA: and A^IA: act. to create contention,
to give cause for contention, to contend (in
judgment), to accuse. Matt. xii. 10. Amos
vii. 4.
XA: and fRA: s. Tigr. flT: beer. Deut.
xxix. 6.
ft A: s. Eth. XA"A: enmity, hatred.
XA: s. pi. XAJ"- plate, board, table ; used esp.
of the two Tables of the Law.
XA:: XAA: and XA'T’: s. Eth. XAA,:: Ar.
Jt Heb. 4 shadow, shade ; umbrella. Gen.
xix. 8.
XAA: o |1 I£ < P7 n : s. an Abyssinian plant.
XAA: non occ.
AXAA: v. a. to shade, to overshadow; trop.
to protect.
XAA: v.n .to be pure, of metals. P—: :
“pure,” “ unmixed gold.” Cant. v. 11.
XAO«: Vid. taA«« ::
XA 1 ^: s. Eth. and Tigr. XAA,: enemy, adver¬
sary, hater, foe. Gen. xiv. 20.
S'// /
XA^T: s. Ar. prayer. Rad. XAP”
XA^l^P: s. hatred, enmity, odium, abhorrence,
disgust, animosity. Gen. iii. 15.
XAT?: i.q. XA 1 ^::
XAF: idem. Deut. xix. 17.
XAP: v. n. to pray to God. Heb.
TXAP: pass, to be prayed.
XfhA: s. Eth. and Tigr .plate for meats, dish.
1 Chr. xxii. 3. 1 Kings vii. 50.
Xdhb^>: s. a certain carnivorous animal, some¬
what similar to a pig: its favourite food is
human corpses, which it digs out from bury¬
ing places.
X^: s. sun. Gen. xv. 2. Al.
XrhX/P: s. complete form for the more usual
XX/P: s. writing, inscription, writ, &c. Ezek.
ii. 9.
X°^: Amh. non occ. Eth. X9°A:: Heb. NTS!*
“ sitivit.”
TX ul l: neut. to be thirsty, to thirst. Ex.
xvii. 3.
AX°*J: trs. to make thirsty, to produce thirst.
XCTO; y.n. Eth. X^T 0 :: Heb. Ar'U
to fast, abstain from food or drink.
A flX 010 : trs. to cause, enjoin fasting.
X*/ 15 : s. Ar. Heb. fasting, abstemious¬
ness, a fast.
X9°: s. Eth. Xch9°: Tigr. Xrho^.: beard.
XT^C: s raw cotton ; wool.
X^^f: s. Eth. X^A: Heb. thirst. Ex.
xvii. 3.
Xoro^ 1 : s. one who fasts.
Xtrog: v.a. (1) to catch in a net ora trap.
Hence od uuj^: or more generally (1) X
uoj?: “ snare.” (2) to couple, join together
in pairs ; to yoke together.
AX<«>K: trs. to catch, ensnare, entrap. Lev.
xvii. 13.
'pX OTJ .^: pass. (1) to be caught, ensnared.
Ps. ix. 15. (2) to be yoked, joined, coupled
together. Acts i. 14.
X-9®^:.,. X6TV
( 189 )
• XV
s. the coupling, copulation, a couple, a
pair; union, juncture. Lukexiv. 19.
R-mjg-: s. that which is caught, a prey. Ps.
cxxiv. 6.
X: pass, to be made or declared righte¬
ous, to be justified. Heb. p72p.
adj. Heb. p'HIi Ar. righteous, just,
pious. Gen. vi. 9. xviii. 23.
& G
X-^4*: s. Heb. p“TI£ Ar. “veritas,” righte¬
ousness, justice, piety; frequently and gene¬
rally, benevolence, alms. The Abyssinians’
notions are rather confused.
JLSX: s. an Abyssinian tree, a species of the
Leguminosa.
s. (1) name of the thirtieth Amharic
letter. (2) The first annual season, beginning
on the 25th of Mascarram, and lasting to the
26th of Tahsass. It corresponds to our autumn.
In the Abyssinians’ standard work of compu¬
tation, the Aboo Shaker, the seasons are thus
enumerated : “There are numbered four divi¬
sions of the year: (l) Ts’adai, begins the 25th
of Mascarram (3d or 4 th of October), and ends
the 26th of Tahsass. (2) Keramt, begins the
25th of Tahsass, and ends the 26th of Magabit.
(3) Mats’au, begins the 25tli of Magabit, and
ends the 26th of Sane. (4) Hagai’, begins the
25th of Sane,and ends the 26th of Mascarram.”
In common life, however, they know only of
two seasons; i. e. the rainy season, Keramt,
which lasts from June to September ; and the
dry season, which is called Baga, and com¬
prises the whole of the rest.*
v. n. to rush, fall, or tumble down sud¬
denly ; to rush in with violence.
hXRA.: v.’n. to precipitate, to make fall down,
to throw down. Habakkuk iii. 12.
XS^": s. Eth. & Tigr. :: mead, hydromel,
the favourite Abyssinian beverage. P(D^5:
—: “mead of grapes,” i.e. “wine.” Gen. ix.
21. xxvii. 25. P— : “ butler.’’
* This will serve to correct what is said s. v. np ::
When that was printed, the author was not in posses¬
sion of the valuable MS. referred to under this head;
which has since been sent, with several very important
MSS., by the Rev. Mr. Krapf.
• . • 01ft:
X!J:...X6.: ( 191 )
KD v. n. to serve for a support or refuge. Vid.
TX^: n. to take refuge or shelter. Gen. xix. 30.
s. and 01^:: grace of God. HA: —:
“ possessor of wealth,” “ rich.” Rad. X’KD:
Eth. “donavit.”
R°f: s. Eth. X-T-: “ forum;” shore, bank, of a
river; boundary, border, side of a country or
place. Num. xiii. 29. Jos. xv. 8. 1 Sam. xx. 25.
x*bC- s. hair. Gen. xxv. 25.
XT^^.9 0 : adj. hairy, full of hair.
Xin : V. n. to be satiated, satisfied, to have plenty.
Gen. xxv. 8.
ftxnn: v. a. to satiate, satisfy, to content.
s. satiety, fulness, plenty. Ps. xvi. 11.
Gen. xli. 29.
x-Tr. a milch-cow. Ps. l. 10.
XT1: and mil: v.a. to bind up, dress a wound,
a fracture, &c. Job v. 18.
'T’X']!: pass. Prov. iii. 8. Jer. xlvi. 11.
XT1: v. n. to be obscured, darkened. Ps. ix. 15.
R^T: s. Tigr. vapour, fog, obscurity,
darkness. Gen. xv. 17.
X*!*: part, of silence. —: A A"- “to be silent,”
“ quiet,” “ calm,” “ settled.” —: AgO: and
—: ftftT: “to quiet,” “to calm,” “to si¬
lence,” “to settle.” Ex. ix. 29. Deut. xx. 9.
XTF: s. silence, quietness, a calm. Matt,
viii. 26.
X<£j v. a. Eth. Xfj.0 :: to strike with the palm
of the hand. Gen. iv. 23.
tX4, : pass, to be struck with the palm of the
hand.
X<5.: v.a. Eth. Xrt*X,: to write, inf.
and oo R-fh fj.: the writing, a book ; esp. the
Scriptures, Bible; generally OTOR-^f^:
K.fl =
fX<5,: pass, to be written.
ftftX<5,: caus. to cause or order writing.
RX,: s. Eth. Rrhd.:: a writer, scribe, secretary,
chancellor. Matt. v. 20. pi. Eth. R
Xft: J\A: v. n. to be pleasing, agreeable, to
please, Num. viii. 16. to be nice, clean, Deut.
xxiii. 14.
v n - Mark vii. 35: X£:
C*): “ he spake fluently.'"
R^L: s. the palm of the hand.
XQ.C : s. a small leather thong.
X-G.C: s. nail of fingers and toes ; claw or hoof
of animals. Deut. xxi. 12. Isa. v. 28. Dan.
iv. 33.
X75/F: s. Eth. R-frid/P: a writing, writ, in¬
scription, subscription, &c. Ex. xxxii. 16.
X<5,(T1: v. n. to be sweet, agreeable, pleasant, to
have a good taste. Gen. ii. 9. Ex. xv. 25.
act. to sweeten, to season. Ijev. n, 13.
<5,(11: pass, to be sweetened, seasoned. Ex.
xxxvii. 29.
adj. sweet, pleasant, agreeable to the
taste. James iii. 11. Isa. v. 20.
\ s. sweetness, good flavour, pleasant
taste. Lev. xv. 13. Prov. vi. 24.
/ xvi. 24.
XG.XG. 1 s - pavement of stones, extremely rare
in Abyssinia.
0 ::
0:0^: Tsappa, the thirty-first letter of the
Amharic alphabet. It is pronounced like
the German z, or ts, and often exchanged
for R::
0»: “ bellum,” strife, quarrel, contest, war,
conflict. Gen. xiii. 7. 1 Chr. xii. 36.
01 ^: Heb. Zebaoth. James v. 4.
0^: sometimes X't':: s. Eth. ftR-nO^p::
Heb. Ar. finger, toe. Ex. viii.
19. —: “thumb,” “great toe.”
A.H: —: “ fore-finger,” “ indicator.” J-f"
ft: — : “ the little finger or toe.”
01ft: v. n. to conceive, to be pregnant or with
child. Gen. xvi. 11.
TXifi: . . . X.Afkt:
( 192 )
TMtl: pass, to be conceived, to be a foetus.
Job iii. 3.
O'jfl: s. pregnancy; foetus, embryo. Gen.
iii. 16.
l£f£«7D : s . Matt, xxiii. 23. i.q. flLf£9°: q.v.
OAAt*: and s. the going out, forth or
up; esp. Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
H : — : “Book of Exodus .”
contr. for the sun.
&£*:: OfhE* 1 or with ft-.', juniper-tree. Gen.
vi. 14. 2 Chr. ii. 8. Two species are found
in Shoa: the wood of the one is red, the
other white; both hard, and brittle like glass,
s. Prov. xxv. 25. i.q. X£A-:
01fl: i.q. X in::
o;vnF: and Mil?: one who is satiated, filled.
Luke vi. 25.
s. ant. al. Prov. xxx. 24.
X,:
af, the thirty-second letter of the
Amharic alphabet.
d.A- v. n. Eth. Tigr. to boil,
seethe, to bubble ; to spring up, to issue forth,
as water from a source; to ferment.
trs. to make boil, bubble, spring up;
to cook ; to produce, bring forth. Ex. viii. 3.
4. A: s. omen, a token on which any prediction
is grounded. Isa. xliv. 25. Ezek. xxi. 22.
Micah iii. 6, 7. P — : |‘|Qy* : “ fortune¬
teller.”
fJ.A’: adj. Eth. fJ.A’r’h: boiling, seething, bub¬
bling, fermenting.
<5.AI*I: v. n. to migrate, emigrate.
act. to make emigrate, to transfer,
transport, remove. Gen. v. 24. 1 Chr. x. 14.
■tVj.Al'l: idem. Ezek. xlviii. 14.
<5.Art.: s. Eth. an emigrant, exile, pi. X,Al\
E'i" Num. xxxv. 15.
s. emigration; trop. removal from
this to another world, exit, esp. death (or
Assumption) of St. Mary.
s. Gr. (pi?\.6ao(})og, a philosopher.
s. (pt\ocro: act. to cause fulguration, lightning ;
to make bubble up. Prov. i. 23. Jer. vi. 7.
X.A1: v. a. to seek, search, inquire, to require,
request, to ask, to want. Gen. xxxi. 32.
TX.A'I: pass, to be sought, &c.
AflX/P]: caus. to cause or order seeking, &e.
^A^): s. a footstep; a trace, vestige. Gen.
xiv. 14.
#5,Art! : v - a. to separate, cut off, to make go off.
Eccl. x. 9.
TX.A ID: pass, to be separated, &c.
s. separation, a splinter.
S. nervous headache, megrim ; giddi¬
ness. Isa. i. 5.
s. a splinter, a piece, a cut, a slice.
Gen. xxix. 14.
£AX: and £Ag: s. an arrow, a dart. Ex.
xix. 13.
X.AX.A: v. a. to clear the grain from the chaff,
or leguminous fruits from their husks.
'PX.AX.A: pass.
s. porcupine.
£9«:s. Eth. a l lve coa h Lev. xvi. 12.
Ar. ^s 4 and Heb. OHS “charcoal.”
X.6.: v. n. Eth. X.CU: to fear, be af raid. Deut.
xx. 8.
TX.6.: pass, to be feared. Ex. xv. 11. 1 Chr.
xiv. 17.
caus. to make afraid, inspire with
fear, to frighten, to terrify. Gen. ix. 2.
s. & adp fearful, fearing; one who fears,
a coward. Deut. xx. 8.
v. n. Eth. X.CP: “ fructus tulit.” Heb.
m3. Amh. non acc.
T T
AX.<5.: v.a. to bear fruits, n. to be fertile,
fruitful.
T6.£g. i ■ ■. T:
htli.6.'- ( 193
I
hft<5/.: caus. to fructify, to make fruitful, i
Gen. i. 11.
s. Heb. "HQ fruit, produce, 'production ;
meton. result, effect, pi. IJ.do.Pft’:: Deut.
xxx. 16.
<5.^11: Eth. i.q. A^' Ps. lxxvii. 16.
a5.<5tJ: Eth. inf. of the fearing, fear.
Jobvi. 14: <£.£11: iV’IH.JVflih.C: “the
fearing God, 11 “fear of God. 11
and een-: s. fear. ■
s. breast-bone. i.q.
v. n. to break, to burst, to be destroyed.
act. to break to pieces, to destroy, to
ruin, to demolish. Gen. xvii. 14 :
'l: “for it hath broken
(transgressed) my institutions. 11
d^ft: s. Heb. UHQ Ar. Germ. “ pferd, 11
a horse. Gen. xlix. 17.
s. Satan's horse, name of a
large bird of prey.
AQtl- s. Heb. tt)HQ Ar. i ••• fft contents of the
stomach and bowels. Lev. xvi. 27.
<5//19°: s. a corpulent person. Lud.
s. horseman, rider. Gen. l. 9.
*<5.^ftF}, ov, physical. Geogr.
•tfiVl: s. Heb. npQ Gr. Hacr^a. the Passover ;
Easter; the animals killed on Easter-day for
feasting; feasting on animal food in general.
A 4: v. reeipr. to love one another.
ft-feC Eth. a Ij. beloved, dear, darling, favourite.
ft^O s. love, affection, charity. Gen. xxxi. 30.
AA: v. n. to proceed, go f urther.
d.'Pfy: AKO: trs. to remove, to separate, put
away. Gen. xlviii. 12.
T'l&.'P'P: v. n. to glide on the buttocks.
<4.1>£: ' -i to will, to intend, resolve, determine,
to design.
■t'd/l’g: pass, to be intended, &c.
and ft3\R-::s. the wtill, intention, reso¬
lution, determination, design, mind, desire.
dfit- v. a. Eth. d/Prh" Tigr. <5/pth,:: Heb.
nn|) Ar. i 0 loosen, untie, to solve, to ab¬
solve, to dissolve, to open; to make free, libe¬
rate, to deliver. Gen. xlii. 27. "/sniYvnib.
“MayGod absolve thee!” usual
form of absolution pronounced by the priests.
pass, to be untied, loosed, solved, re¬
laxed, liberated, freed; to be permitted, to be
absolved. Gen. xlix. 21. Lev. xi. 2: Pi’
that which is permitted ,”
“ allowed to you.” Job iii. 14: PT<5,i':
“ that which is liberated ,” i. e. “ deserted .”
Mark i. 45.
caus. to cause or order loosening,
solving, &c. Ex. xxi. 19:
that which he has caused him to
liberate of his business,” i. e. “ the loss of
time.”
d/T: i-q- <£.■¥■: r t* a l r l4: d,^V : “ one free from
work,” i.e. “a loiterer,” “idler.” Prov. xxi. 5.
Rad. <5^::
4/R: part, expressing the sound of sipping, or
drawing in any drink. «J/p: Y\i\- “to sip."
the sipping.
<5/p: s. the face, countenance, the anterior part,
the surface, the outside of a thing. Ex.
xxxiii. 14: <5/t: n0.1::
Tigr. syphilis. Amh.
d,P : s. hermaphrodite, used of men and
animals. The hyaena is thought to be so.
s. crop or craw of birds ; bladder of mam¬
malia. Lev. i. 16.
d.: pass, to be ground or reduced to
powder.
3\<5,EE|,: intens. TCfn: —: “to gnash with
the teeth.” Acts v. 33. Also to whet.
ftflX.CQ>: caus. to cause or order grinding, &c.
^Eft>: s. grinder, miller. Eccl. xii. 3.
X.Eft;p: s. idem. fern. X.Eft^f’P.'t 1 : female
miller. Eccl. xii. 4.
< 5 .Rou : v. a. to accomplish, to perfect, to finish,
to end.
'PX.Xtro: pass, to be accomplished, perfected,
finished, ended. Gen. ii. 1.
ftflX.K™: caus. to cause or order accom¬
plishing, &c. Gen. xliii. 3:
made a complete end with
11
US.
x.x-q**: 1 constr. of X.X*™.: as adv. already,
completely, perfectly. Gen. iii. 22.
Q.X'9 n : adj. perfect, accomplished, complete.
Gen. vi. 9. pi. {J.X.uft'}::
perfection, completion, accomplishment,
termination, end, sum. Gen. xxxiii. 7. Prov.
xii. 13.
TX.X 01 * : aogou^ : ::
END OF THE FIRST PART.
SUPPLEMENT.
I.
A LIST OF PROPER NAMES,
BOTH ABYSSINIAN AND FOREIGN.
9A£: • • • AflJlA:
1 1A£: Hala’jl, frontier village and district on
the N. E. entrance into Tigre.
U™™lVJ: Hamassen, the northernmost province
of Abyssinia.
Haramat, a mountainous district in
the province of Tigre.
UV^fl: Horeb, mountain. Ex. iii. 1.
'ICJfil: Herod. Matt. ii. 1.
RC.K\P£ : from the ace. ‘Hpudiada, Herodias.
Matt. xiv. 3.
111*19™: Hassam, a rivulet near Adoa.
If 1*1,0: Hosea, prophet.
IfilO: Hoshea , last king of the ten tribes of
Israel.
H.FY1: Enoch, patriarch. Gen. v. 19. Under
his name, a book is extant, containing some
very absurd traditions.
andX'l fI lA fl : Hentalo,
or Ent’alo, capital of the province of Enderta,
in Abyssinia.
U£h: Hair, a lake on the frontiers of the
Yedjow country and the Shoa province of
Geshe. In it is an island, which contains a
convent dedicated to St. Stephen.
A:
AA.I1A: Lalibala. (1) A sainted king of Abys¬
sinia, reigning about the end of the 12th
and beginning of the 13th century, after the
downfal of the usurping Falasha dynasty. He
is renowned for his attempt at changing the
course of the Abyssinian Nile, in order to
AOTJAq™: . . .
famish Egypt, on account of the vexatious
treatment the Abyssinian pilgrims had to
suffer in the latter country from the Moham¬
medans, and for some churches in Lasta
which he caused to be hewn out into the solid
rock. (2) Capital of the province of Lasta,
containing one (or more) of those famous exca¬
vated churches, and named after King Lalibala.
A^JA*! 0 : Lamalmo, a high mountain in Semen.
AftF: Lasta, a very mountainous province of
Abyssinia, in which are the sources of the
Taccaze. Capital, Lalibala.
A.**n.Pi*|: Lysanias. Luke iii. 1.
A* 3*1*1 : Luke, evangelist.
A.3 > rf|: Likanos ( Lucanus ), one of the nine
Missionaries from Alexandria who entered
Abyssinia during the reign of Alameda, about
the end of the 5th century.
A'fli: .K’TTA: Labna Dengel (Incense of the
Virgin), surname of King Claudius of Abys¬
sinia. Al. I'flA: S’T'IA::
A°^1: London, metropolis of the British
empire.
A,«£: Levi, son of Aaron.
A,T A(D\K*P'ft:: ^AfD'SLQDft • but generally
lAdJ-SL^ft: Claudius, name of two Roman
Ccesars, and of an Abyssinian king who
reigned from 1540 to 1559.
K’um Dangai, district in the
country of the Gelan Gallas in Shoa.
Ccesar, appellation of the Roman em¬
perors. Luke ii. 1.
U IC.P : Cesarea, town in Palestine. Acts x. 1.
Korah. Numb. xvi.
K’wara, frontier province of Abyssinia, to
the W. of Dambea. Capital, Fintsha.
*t?CA°ft : (1) Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria, who
died a.d. 444, chief opponent to Nestorius. He
is held in the greatest respect by the Abyssi¬
nians. (2) Aboona K'erlos, the last Abyssi¬
nian Bishop, who died 1828, at his residence
near Adoa in Tigre. He was an Ultra-Mono-
physite; on which account, as well as for his
violence, he made himself hateful to the
'fWi:
( 201 )
nfiPA: Cain. Gen. iv. 1.
Cyprus, island. Acts xi. 20.
: Cyprian, of Carthage.
IT*}™- Ar. KaTrepvaovp, Caper- I
naum. Matt. viii. b.
n:
nAn: Balasa, province of Abyssinia, situate
between Dem'bea, Semen, Lasta, Bagamme-
der, Foggara, and Lake Ts’ana. Chief town :
Abuna Tecla Hai'manot.
n-A^: Billy a, town and district in Shoa, one
day’s journey south of Ankobar.
ncm= Barahhas. Matt, xxvii. 16.
Bartholomew.
ncrnft: Barnabas, associate of St. Paul.
Bereza, a rivulet which rises in the
W. of the Tshakka, and runs between Angol-
iala and Dabra Berhan, takes in afterwards
the Dalatslia coming from Tag'welet, and
then runs into the Tsh’atsh’a, on its westward
course into the Nile.
nhA": Bashelo, a river which rises on the
N. confines of Shoa, and empties itself into
the Nile.
nfSA.fl:: nftAfMTl:: and nftACDfl: Basi-
lius M. of Caesarea in Cappadocia.
ILT: Arfi,? 11 : Bethlehem, town of David.
: patriarch.
Bithynia, country in Asia Minor.
fiaA: Babel. nn,A°l: Babylon.
Benjamin.
nYl.qofl: and : Pachomius, succes¬
sor of Anthony, and regulator of the mo¬
nastic order of that saint.
•fl < P l i,*P: Bewahit, one of the highest moun¬
tains in Semen.
*11*4A: PLOA^ Beelzebub. Matt. xii. 27.
rmnjrc: Baggammeder, considerable pro¬
vince of Abyssinia, situate between Balasa,
Lasta, Amhara, and Godjam. Capital, Dabra
Tabor, residence of the Ras, i.e. tutor of the
nominal king of Gondar. Mahd^ra Maryam,
considerable town.
T:
: Tahhuladdare, a country adjoining
the N. frontier of Shoa, and inhabited by the
Yedjow Gallas. A considerable lake, called
Haik, is in this province; in which there is
an island and a monastery dedicated to St.
Stephen.
IPA^A: Taltal , a tribe of Danakil inhabiting
the eastern frontier of Tigre, and living in
subjection to Abyssinian government. Some
of them have embraced the Christian profes¬
sion : the rest are, like their other Dankali
brethren, Mohammedans.
Thomas, apostle.
T9 11 0/4: Tamben, a province S. W. of Tigre
Proper, bordering on the river Taccaze.
*ri*lA°l‘t: Thessalonica.
Tshakka, or Chakka, a ridge of mountains
2 D
TVlA: ( 202 ) iNpPflP'fl: • • ***£:
rising W. of Ankobar, and running S. W. to
N. E., some of which rise to the height of
about 10,000 feet.
TVlA: Tecla Haimanot. (1) One
of the most celebrated Abyssinian saints,
a native of Shoa, who flourished in the 13th
century. Not attending to the many super¬
stitious traditions with which the Abyssinians
have obscured his history, he is renowned on
these grounds: (a) He restored the line of
Solomon, by an agreement which he drew up
between Naakweto Laab, of the Zegue, and
Yekweno Amlak, of the Solomon family; in
consequence of which the former resigned
his claims to the latter, upon certain condi¬
tions. (6) He made himself to be the last
native Aboona of Abyssinia; by a regulation,
according to which, henceforth, the Aboona
was to be a Copt, never an Abyssinian, (c) He
made a law, which appointed a third part of
all Abyssinia for the Aboona alone, and for
the support of the clergy, convents, and
churches. (c?) He established the famous
convent of Dabra Libanos, in Shoa. (2) A
king of Abyssinia, of the Zegue line, reigning
in the eleventh century. (3) Two kings of
the line of Solomon, the second of whom
reigned at Gondar at the time of Mr. Bruce’s
visit in Abyssinia.
*r*lA: T.P’Cifl: Tecla Georgia, king of Abys¬
sinia, brother of Tecla Haimanot II. and his
second successor. He was raised to the
throne by Ras Adam, and supported for a
certain time by Ras Walda Selasse. His son,
who has the same name as himself, lives at
present with Oobe, Dedjazmatsh of Semen
and Tigre.
TYlH,: Taccaze, a large river which takes its
origin in the district called Ain Taccaze, on
the mountains of Lasta ; flows in a N. W.
direction, so as to divide the N. part of Abys¬
sinia in two great divisions, and flows into
the Nile in Nubia.
Theodor us. (1) king of Abyssinia,
in the 14th century. (2) A king of (Abyssi¬
nian) prophecy, who is to make his appear¬
ance in the latter days, and to reign in Abys¬
sinia, a reign of happiness and peace, after
having subdued the whole w r orld, and con¬
verted it to Christianity. This idea is so
strongly rooted in the Abyssinians, that in
Tigre, foreigners, when entering the country,
are often asked whether they know any thing
about his coming, or whether they are not
messengers announcing his arrival.
Theodosius, name of three Greek
emperors.
r t , (pL.P7°: Iconium, country in Asia Minor.
AflA: Abel, son of Adam.
ivneiF: TxKUH- Abreha and Ats’beha,
two Abyssinian kings, brothers, under whose
reign Christianity was introduced into Abys¬
sinia by Frumentius, about a.d. 336.
2Vfl: Abelam, in Shoa, denomination of
the corporation of the herdsmen. They keep
the cattle of the king; and form a separate
class of people, who do not live or mix with
the other inhabitants of Shoa; and in war,
they fight in separate bodies.
Abraham, patriarch.
ftnOA,: Abargale, a tribe of Agows, inha¬
biting the eastern banks of the river Taccaze.
AfLlT/VT 0 : Absalom, son of David.
ft.nn : Ibaba, a small province between Agow-
meder and Damot.
Abai, the Abyssinian branch of the
river Nile, al. “Blue river,” from the Ar.
jjj'A j 2 ? Bahr IJ1 Azreku.
AI1J2.P.: Abiye, third king of Shoa, son of
?wi Rr¥‘ Mlrmc :
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DISCS': • • ftVl l>9°:
Sabastiye. He is said to have taken Ankobar
from the Anko Gallas, who till then pos¬
sessed it.
Mi Kry-. Obadiah, prophet.
better Pto¬
lemy.
ivtF: Athens in Greece.
ATE'IXpft: Athanasius, celebrated Church-
father of Alexandria in the fourth century,
is held in great veneration by the Abys-
sinians.
TVl’P’frft: Ethiops, Aidioxfs, said to have been
one of the twelve sons of Chush, whom that
son of Ham begat at Axum. He is looked
upon as the chief progenitor of the Abys-
sinians.
a/pp -fry-. Ethiopia. J an
Ethiopian.
>>rcv : or Enarea or Narea, the west¬
ernmost of the countries surrounding Abys¬
sinia, which are at present known in Europe.
It forms an independent state, under its own
king: its inhabitants are, for the greater
part, Mohammedans, with some Christians.
It is very productive, especially in a superior
sort of coffee; and contains the civet-cat, and
the Gessela or dark-brown leopard.
Ancyra, city in Phrygia, where some
Councils were held.
HabaJckuk. (1) the Prophet. (2) A
converted Mohammedan, native of Arabia
Felix, who, during the reign of king Naod,
and when Abuna Tecla Haimanot flourished,
came as a merchant to Abyssinia, and was
there brought to embrace Christianity. He
became Etsh’ege, i.e. Superior of all the mo¬
nasteries, and translated some of Chryso¬
stom's works into Ethiopic.
/Vilnnc: Ankobar, capital of the kingdom of
Shoa, and chief residence of the king. It
contains about 12,000 inhabitants, and five
churches. The king’s residence is on a lofty
peak; which detaches itself from the neck of
the mountain on which lies the greater part
of the town, so as to give it an aspect of
grandeur scarcely describable, especially as
the whole of the royal buildings, consisting
in a number of larger and smaller houses, are
strongly fenced in with palisades, surround¬
ing the whole, in a spiral manner, from the
bottom of the peak to the top. The elevation
of the town above the surface of the sea is
stated, by Dr. Beke, to be about 8200 feet.
The name, Anko-bar, is said to have its origin
from the Galla tribe Anko, who they believe
lived here, under a queen, before the kings of
Shoa possessed it. It signifies “ Gate (bar)
of the Anko.”
V1KC3-: Endarta, province of Abyssinia, of
which Plent’alo is the capital. Other chief
places are, Tshallek’ut, Gebba. The Lake
Ashangi is in this province.
VWXPfl: Andrew, apostle.
Ango'llala, a new little town in
Shoa, about twenty-seven miles west from
Ankobar, second residence of the king of
Shoa. Dr. Beke states its elevation above
the surface of the sea to be 8407 feet.
KriP/fl: Angrab, a tributary river to the
Taccaze, which rises in the neighbourhood of
Gondar.
: or 2V}*1;(pT , f| : Antiochus, name
of several Syrian kings of Seleucus’s family.
U’l''• Antetsh o, town and district in the
E. of Tigre Proper.
St. Anthony, author of Monasticism.
Antioch. (1) city and church in
Syria. (2) town and district on the N.E.
confines of Shoa.
AVn'r-9 0 : Axum, ancient capital of Abyssinia,
and the present residence of the Governor of
Tigre Proper, who bears the title of Nebrid,
or Keeper of the Ark of the Testimony.
A few architectural relics, of remote as well as
recent antiquity, and several inscriptions
which are found there scattered on stone,
speak of better days than the present. Axum
has been described by Bruce, Salt, and
Riippell. The author was there one afternoon
only, when the presence of Oobieh’s (Oobe’s)
ftVl£.P: . . . ft.Pftft:
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army prevented him from doing any more
than glance over those antiquities; and the
unfortunate breaking up of the Tigre Mission
did not allow a second visit, for a thorough
examination. He was, however, assured,
by a priest, that there were several houses
which contained, within their enclosures, in¬
scriptions which no European as yet had
seen.
ft*l£.P: Achaia, province of Greece.
Europe.
Eusebius, name of several
bishops of the fourth century.
ft,a>’fi r n r tg)fi: Eustathius, chief author of
the monastic life in Abyssinia.
ft(D' a IM*P 1 f|: Augustus, Caesar.
ft(D’ : Wa'lak’a, a province of Abyssinia.
(DA^JJ^p: Walk’ait, a province on the N.W.
borders of Abyssinia: the country is low,
and full of marshes; very fertile, abounding
in woods and w r ild beasts.
(DAE/l: Walduba, a small province between
Walk’ait and the river Taccaze. It is re¬
nowned for its convents for monks and nuns,
to which many respectable Abyssinians send
their children for education.
(DAT: Wassan Saggad, the sixth king
of Shoa, and father of the present king: he
died in a conflagration at Kundi, which con¬
sumed the house in which he lived, in 1812.
Vf*: Wato, a class (or tribe?) of Gallas, inha¬
biting the mountain Wato-Dalatsha, near the
banks of the Haw ash, south of Shoa. They
pretend to keep the original institutions of
the Gallas pure, whereas all their other Galla
brethren are said to have fallen off. Their sole
business, they say, is to bless and to curse;
for which purpose they go from tribe to tribe,
and from nation to nation : and their bless¬
ings and curses are so superstitiously relied
upon, that nobody dares to touch them; but
wherever they come, they find what they
want, although they are seldom allowed to
enter people’s houses. As they are fond of
the hippopotamus, Mr. Krapf, who gives this
information, thinks that there may be a rela¬
tion between them and the following.
(D.£if*: Wai to, a people inhabiting the shores
of Lake Ts’ana, and living chiefly upon the
flesh of the hippopotamus and other animals
held in abhorrence by the Abyssinians.
: Wadjerat, an Abyssinian province
S. of Enderta.
(D°M.: Waggera, a province between Semen
and Dambea, abounding in barley. Capital,
Waggera.
(D£A: Waffela, a small province between
Lasta and Wa'djerat.
O:
T.A.: Eli, priest and judge. 1 Sam. i.
JtP'T: Amda Ts’ion (Pillar of Sion),
king of Abyssinia, a celebrated warrior, who
reigned from 1312 to 1342.
Amos, prophet.
OT!£.: Ezra, priest.
T£C9°n: Aivam'ba, capital of the Argobba
country, and residence of its governor, situate
on the banks of the river Tsh’affa, al. Ber'kuna.
Adegrat, capital of the province of
Agame in Abyssinia.
Ats’mi, Tigrean district on the borders
of the salt plain Arho.
H:
H: as an Ethiopic genitive, stands frequently as
initial before Christian names of persons, in
order to supply another word which is sup¬
pressed; e.g. Hj£pT°lA: “of the Virgin,”
instead of(DA£* : or TTI4 : “ son”
or “ slave of the Virgin.”
HAT: Zalan, pi. HAf^:: a migratory and
nomadic people, inhabiting especially the
provinces of Fog'gara, Balasa, Dambea, Wag¬
gera, and Semen. They pretend to be de¬
scendants of Jacob, who accompanied Meni-
lek, the son of Solomon, into Abyssinia. They
live under their own chiefs, are said to be
better Christians than the rest of the Abys¬
sinians, marry but one wife, and form a sepa¬
rate class of people, just as the shepherds in
Shoa.
'Hfrorcj: • . Tng*C-
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Ml:—: Abba Zehhma, one of Abba I
Gari'ma’s &c. companions.
H^i^llhbA: Zamichael, surname of Abba
Aragawi.
H^HfLA: Zerubabel. Matt. i. 12.
H£0: Zara Yaek’ob (seed of Jacob),
king of Abyssinia, who governed 1434 to 1468,
and sent messengers to the Council of Florence.
HJhV'i: Zebulon, son of Jacob.
H'n&(pf|: Zebedee, father of the apostles
James and John.
HF: Zana, village and district in the province
of Shire.
Zen'djero, a country S. E. of Gurague.
Mr. Krapf received from a slave at Anko-
bar, a native of Zendjero, the following infor¬
mation : — The present king, Ammo, is a
warrior, and favours all people of that kind.
The natives have circumcision, and some
Christian festivals; but know little about
Christianity, and are Pagans. The capital is
Anger. Succession to the throne is heredi¬
tary. The people, like the Gallas, eat no
fowl, neither do they eat goats. The Gura¬
gue merchants, when coming to Zendjero,
are maintained by the king during their stay.
The male inhabitants cut off their teats; say¬
ing, that they are becoming only to women:
they likewise mutilate their testicles. Only
females are sold as slaves to other countries :
male slaves are made only by force, by rob¬
bers, or as prisoners of war. The reason is
said to be this: Many ages since, the king of
Zendjero had ordered a man of rank to kill
his wife, as the king wanted her for a medi¬
cine. The man went home; but although
he found her asleep, he did not venture to
kill her. The king then ordered the lady to
kill her husband. She complied: and, as a
punishment for this female cruelty, females
alone were condemned to be sold as slaves to
foreign countries.—There are people in Zend¬
jero who pay no duties; but deliver their
first-born sons to the king; the latter appoint¬
ing these unhappy creatures for sacrifices.
For this barbarous custom the following
reason is assigned: Formerly, a high iron
column stood in the neighbourhood of the
capital: as long as it stood, there was rain
and sunshine, summer and winter, mixed to¬
gether during the whole year, so that no
seeds or fruits could come to maturity. The
king asked his wise men what to do, to divide
the seasons. Thev advised him to cut off
the pillar, but not quite to the ground. He
did so; and the rains decreased, and fruits
could ripen. But his wise men counselled
him, in order to prevent the return of the
former calamity, from time to time to sacri¬
fice a number of first-born sons to the deitv.
»
—The reporter said, that he himself saw the
remaining stump of the pillar still standing.
Hln<5: (D^CD'A.: Zakri and Pauli, according
to one of the most learned Abyssinians of the
present day, two brethren, who lived after
Christ, and before Frumentius, and translated
the Books of the Prophets into Ethiopic.
HVlCJPft: Zechariah, prophet; Zacharias, the
priest; both of which are by the Abyssinian
legendarists made out to be identical, and to
them (him) is referred Matt, xxiii. 35.
TIVJE: Zwai, a considerable lake in Gurague,
in which five islands are said to be found,
with several monasteries. It was reported
that the king of Abyssinia, at the time when
Gragn invaded the country, concealed the
most valuable treasures there. King Sahela
Selasse of Shoa sent therefore a man on pur¬
pose to examine those islands; who did not,
however, find any such treasures, but he
said that he found a large number of Ethiopic
books there. The lake receives several rivers;
but whither it sends its water, w r e have not
yet ascertained.
• I1LT1: Z azeb. Abba Salama Zazeb, a native of
Tigre, during the reign of king David II. (who
had his residence at Yerer, in the S.W. of
Shoa, now inhabited by Gallas) translated the
“Book of Monks, 11 by Cyril of Alexandria,
into Ethiopic.
H£* T: • P:
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PH -.
: Zenon, Greek emperor in the 5th
century, author of an henotikon.
P:
In the Ethiopic, most of the Scriptural pro¬
per nouns beginning in the Hebrew with \
and in the Greek with I, are rendered with
the initial In the Amharic, this has been
retained in many instances; in others, that
superfluous letter has been rejected. Many
Abyssinians object to the Ethiopic foy. in those
proper nouns, as in the Ethiopic language it
signifies negation: wherever, therefore, it can
properly be omitted, it seems recommendable
to do so, although it cannot be omitted every¬
where.
P4: Yaha, village and district in the province
of Tigre. On a hill in the village are large
ruins of a respectable building, evidently from
the time before the conversion of Abyssinia
to Christianity. The author, who saw it in
1835, on his journey to Adowa, was shewn two
stones, one within the wall and one taken out
from it, containing the following Inscriptions ;
1 .
*iDO o "i n
2 .
• h X?h D o NXHO O IX 3 i no
■ i I' ' 1 - !■' >■'— a j . Lj ii ri. "ii ~n n ~
which he compared with those given by
Mr. Salt, who previously visited the place;
and identified No. 1 with one of the latter.
It is curious, that Monsieur Fresnel, the
present French Consul at Jidda and a dis¬
tinguished Oriental Scholar, in his first
visit to Arabia in 1836 (?), in the neighbour¬
hood of Mareb, found several Inscriptions
with similar characters, of which he has
given an account in the Bulletin of the So-
ciete Geographique of Paris. From the
resemblance of these characters to the exist¬
ing Ethiopic Alphabet, we may suppose that
the latter has been perhaps derived from a
primitive alphabet containing these letters.
The resemblance of some of them to some
Coptic letters suggests the probability of an
original affinity, if not identity, between the
Coptic and the Ethiopic: and the identity
of these characters with those in Mr. Fresnel’s
discovered Inscriptions leads us to think
that the same language may have been
spoken, at some early period, both in Arabia
and in Abyssinia. But to ascertain that
period is difficult; and at present, it seems
impossible. If the Abyssinians’ tradition of
Frumentius having translated the N. T. is
but partly true, it seems certain that the
Arabian Inscriptions cannot have been made
during the Abyssinians’ invasion into Arabia
during the reign of the emperor Justinian;
for there is scarcely any doubt but that since
the time of Frumentius the Ethiopic alphabet
has undergone no change, except the addition
of a few letters, for the expression of several
Amharic sounds. The subject, therefore, must
be left for further inquiries.
(1) Judah, son of Jacob and his tribe-
(2) Judaea, country. (3) Judas. (4) Jude,
apostle.
PWifl: John.
Jerusalem.
Yared, an Abyssinian saint, native of
Semen, who lived about 300 years ago, and
is believed to live still. He is author of the
Church Music (j-ttnj:) of Abyssinia.
P-C£f a = Jordan, river in Palestine.
Isaac. (1) Son of Abraham the
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PlVfl: • •
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patriarch. (2) One of the earlier Fathers of
the Church of Armenia. (3) Surname of Abba
Gareema, one of the nine Missionaries who
arrived in Abyssinia from the Greek Church
during the 5th century. (4) King of Abys¬
sinia in the beginning of the 15th century.
Pfhft: Jesus.
Issachar, son of Jacob.
Jesse, father of David.
Joseph.
P-tTi : Jonas, prophet.
P'FF^: Jonathan, son of king Saul.
(Yaek’ob, not, as Bruce gives it,
Yagoube) Jacob, James. (1) The Patriarch.
(2) Two Apostles. (3) King of Abyssinia
from 1604 to 1605. (4) A Syrian lieresiarch,
head of the Jacobites.
P£(IP: Yadjow, country of the Mohammedan
Yadjow-Gallas, tributary to Gondar. Capital,
Tahuladdare.
YrJ,: Yaffa, Jaffa, or Joppa, town in Palestine.
Heb. iG\ Jos. xix. 46. Jonah i. 3.
T
: Japheth, son of Noah.
Jephthah, one of the Judges of Israel.
K-
£UT: Do'hono, Abyssinian appellation for
P Ox
Arkeeko. Ar. jstffsjb.
£ oij: Dima, town in Godjam.
Damascus, capital of Syria.
£7 T,r fl JP: Dambea, a large and beautiful pro¬
vince of Abyssinia, in which the capital of
the whole kingdom (except Shoa), i.e. Gondar,
is situated. Also Lake Ts’ana, in a large ba¬
sin supposed to have been a crater of an ex¬
tinguished volcano, enters so much into this
province as to receive the denomination of
Lake of Dambea. There are, besides this,
the following principal places in this pro¬
vince : Tsh’alga, Wahhne, Warkleba, Eslamge,
Emfras, and others.
Damot, province situate between God-
jam, the Abyssinian Nile, and Shoa. Capital,
Burre. Commercial town, Dambetsh’a.
Dok’ak’it, a district in upper Ifat.
Dak’aguzai, a province of Abys¬
sinia on the eastern frontier of the Tigre
division, generally called Baharnagash.
y;fl^.: A.nrfl : Dabra Libanos, large and re¬
nowned convent in Shoa.
l\F: Dabra Sina. (1) Mount Sinai in
Arabia. (2) an inconsiderable mountain near
Adowa.
-JrPO Dabra Tabor, capital of Bagam-
meder, and residence of the Ras of Abyssinia.
Dabra Berhan, third residence
of the king of Shoa, about 24 miles W. of
Ankobar.
(DO 1 Dabra Wark’, a famous mo¬
nastery in Godjam.
Dabra Dammo. (1) renowned
monastery in Agame. (2) a conical mountain
near Adowa.
Dank’ez, a very fertile district in the
province of Dambea, bordering on Lake
Ts’ana.
Daniel, prophet.
K.Ui. : Dinki, town in the neighbourhood of
Ankobar in Shoa.
nAllC: (Gate of the Virgin) Den'gelbar,
river, district and town on the W. shore of
Lake Ts’ana. It is said to produce excellent
grapes.
David, name of several kings of Abys¬
sinia.
RZO Dair, mountainous frontier district in
the W. of Shoa.
Dioscuros, patriarch of Alexandria
in the 5th century, a violent opponent to the
Council of Chalcedon.
£ P'mT.PFfl: Diocletian, emperor, and
persecutor, of the Christians.
E.PrflP’fl: and Dionysius,
name of the Areopagite, and of various
bishops, patriarchs, and saints.
1 : m: ca-.
Gcdla, a nation of Pagans inhabiting a
great part of Central Africa, and bordering
1A.A: • • •
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upon Abyssinia. See my Preface to the Rev.
J. L. Krapf s little Galla Grammar. Mr.
Krapf afterwards received the following in¬
formation as to the origin of the Galla
people and name:—“ At a very early period,
when the Abyssinian kings yet resided on
Mount Entoto near Gurague, a Waizero (royal
princess) was married to a slave, a native
from the S. of Gurague. She bore seven sons,
who followed the occupation of their father,
which was that of an herdsman. The sons
collected many people around them, and be¬
came great robbers. One of them was called
Toolema, another Karai'u, another Metsh’a,
&c.; hence the names of seven principal
Galla tribes. When they believed themselves
strong enough, they fought the Abyssinians,
and vanquished them several times, espe¬
cially once near the river Galla in Gurague;
hence they were called Gal/as by the Abys¬
sinians. When Mohammed Gragn desolated
Abyssinia, the Gallas entered; and possessed
themselves of several places, which they
afterwards retained.”
1A.A: Galilee, country in Palestine.
*]A a Galilean. pi. lA.AGP.P'i::
Galatia, country in Asia Minor. 1
Claudius, king of Abyssinia, who
reigned from 1540 to 1559. His most re¬
markable reign is described in Bruce, III. 196 ;
and his confession of faith against the Papists
is given by Ludolf, in his Commentary, both in
the original Ethiopic and in the Latin trans¬
lation.
Goliath, the Philistine giant.
IaIh”. Golgotha, where Christ was crucified.
• Gamaliel. Acts v. 34.
Gomorrha.
: Gragn or Grangye, Mohammed —, a
powerful chief of the Danakil, who, during
the reigns of David III. and his son Claudius,
for a large number of years, was successful
in overrunning and devastating Abyssinia;
till, by the seasonable arrival of 450 Portu¬
guese, he was checked, and A.D. 1543 killed.
•IC’JCP’fl: • • •
Gregory, esp. the brother of Basil,
and Bp. of Nyssa. Also several others.
"Ml:: 2\fl: — : Abba Gubba, one of the nine
Missionaries to Abyssinia in the 5 th century.
Gabra Mask’al (Slave of the
Cross), name of two Abyssinian kings, one of
whom reigned in the 8th, the other in the 10th
century.
Tfl^: I: 4>KjTl: Gabra Manfas K’e-
dus, one of the principal Abyssinian saints,
a native of Shoa.
Gabriel, archangel.
the garden Gethsemane.
•i'SKC Gondar, the capital of all Abyssinia,
except Shoa; described by Bruce, V. 62. and
by Riippell.
Tie'll :P: Ganddbta, village and district in the
province of Tigre.
Gontsh’o, a place on a rocky mountain
near the E. frontier of Shoa, about 21 miles
from Ankobar, where the male relatives of
the king of Shoa are confined.
T.P’CT.fl : St. George, one of the greatest Abys¬
sinian saints.
Gadm, a province on the N. E. frontier
of Shoa.
Gideon, judge and deliverer of the
Israelites.
God jam, a large and fertile province, go¬
verned by three Dadjazmatshes, and watered
by the Nile, several of its early branches, and
by the Lake Ts’ana. Principal towns are,
Mot’a, Zawa, Bitshana, Brenta, Deema, and
Basana. Dabra Wark and K’edus Georgis,
celebrated monasteries.
; Timothy, St. Paul’s assistant.
flLCfl : Tyre, city on the coast of Canaan.
rtX.nCP'ft: Tiberius, Roman emperor.
m'fiCJPgft- Lake of Tiberias.
CElA4*'* ,? t’ : Tsh’allek’wet, a city in the pro¬
vince of Enderta, the Clielicut of Mr. Salt.
: Tsh’alga, a considerable town and
district N. W. of Gondar.
I,3,|,1,3,1,: Tsh’atsh’a, a river three miles W. of
<5,6<5/1/1 :
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GP'1:
Angollala, on the frontier of the Abitshoo
Gallas.
Tshafa, a river in Argobba, which flows
into the Hawash.
ft: R:
Pilate, Roman Governor of Pales¬
tine. His surname is A/lflLF*^" P&'i
fllb: and “Pontius.”
Pamphylia, country in Asia Minor.
KA.K-.P: Pisidia, country in Asia Minor.
ft'lfllAAp'}: Pantaleon, one of the nine Greek
Missionaries who promoted Christianity in
Abyssinia in the 5tli century.
Pontus, country in Asia Minor.
RYr«7»Pf|: Pachomius.
HCR’A’f!: Paul, Apostle. —: ■‘iqpi’lflV
Paul of Samosata, heretic.
^T»qo : Patmos, island in the Grecian Archi¬
pelago. Rev. i. 9.
Peter: (1) the Apostle. (2) Peter,
with the surname Abd Essaid, a native of
Tigre, who lived during the reign of King
Zer’a Yaek’ob, and translated the code of
law, <5/T :
P. 31 a. oi>.^a ; s. i. q. : a young dog.
P. 35 a. auYlY: Eth. v. inusit. to be
a reason, to cause.
ftnnDlr]^: Eth. P’-: to reason, to
inquire into, to find out a came. Deut-
xxx. 13.
P. 40 6. ourrj^ip ; Ar. pi. of
a rod. Prov. xix. 29.
G ✓
Eth. for the Ar. ^biu, “ the cutting
off', 11 “ subtraction, 11 a technical term in the
Abyssinians 1 computation of time, signify¬
ing “that which remains after the sub-
traction of the epacts or intercalary days
of the month or year. 11 Vid. Abu Shaker.
P. 41 a. crortl,: to suit, be of use. ftjiUUGEL
“It is of no use to me. 11
P. 42 6. OTU0{D*: s. spring, vernal season.
P. 71a. : s. Dank. Kembetsha, a
sort of bread-baskets. Al. JVIAIA”
P. 77 a. «p£ D f’ : Gr. acc. Kctvova, from /cai/cov,
canon, ecclesiastical regulation.
P. 77 6. v. n. to be cool, refreshing.
act. to cool, refresh.
adj. cool, refreshing.
< P'H t PH: idem.
P. 83 a. fl.Uh: Behu, vulgar designation of the
festival of Christ’s Transfiguration, al.
A: FPC::
P. 87 6. 'll Brundo, rare flesh of cattle, a'
favourite Abyssinian article of food.
P. 93 6. flJJ:: See the ecclesiastical computa¬
tion under
P. 94 a. fl^RlI*!: intens. of f|011*1: Dan.
vi. 24.
-> c. s
P. 102 a. Hebest, s. Ar.j_yi- a sort
of wheaten bread made up into small loaves
like dumplings, baked on iron plates, and
wrapped up in bitter leaves in order to pre¬
vent them from being burnt, al. £P::
P. 105 a. Nabreed, supposed keeper
of the Ark of the Covenant, which, the Abys¬
sinians believe, Menilek, the son of Solomon,
by the Queen of Sheba, carried away with
him by stealth, when leaving Jerusalem on
his return to Abyssinia. As the ark is sup¬
posed to be preserved in the Church of St.
Mary’s (Hedar Tsion) at Axum, the office
of Nabreed devolves always upon the
( 214 )
Governor of Axuin, who is likewise Governor
of Tigre Proper.
P-U8 a. : adj. pL
■‘KD'.P'i: Gr. dpOodol-os, orthodox.
P. 120 h. Gr. dcniY1^::
30 a. 10 .. bot. .. oo^£- : /orO«Tl£-::
31a. 1 .. top .. oij'JA/r: f or OD 'lA/t' ::
32 6. 1 .. bot. .. 7roTo? for ocrovrog.
ire
38 a. 2 .
44 a. 2
56 6. 17
59 6. 11
62 a. 1
62 6. 1
63 6. 9
78 a. 1
80 6. 20
85 a. 1
85 6. 21
88 6. 7
104 6. 22
105 a. 19
111 a. 8
115 a. 14
119 a. 22
126 6. 17
126 6. 1
134 a. 6
139 a. 15
141 6. 2
148 6. 8
152 a. 21
153 6. 12
159 6. 1
160 a. 14
168 6. 9
172 a. 5
179 a. 6
<3vc
bot.
tOp . . ^
top .. fin<: /or h'flC"-
top .. flfT : for
top .. for |>h: for Afl£>h::
top .. ior»1:/or
. bot. .. a l , V t I a : for a i'?ao:z
SECOND PART OF THE AMHARIC DICTIONARY.
-- I
ENGLISH AND AMHARIC.
ABA ABB
A.
Aba'ck, adv. (D£: ^J,A” To lay — a sail:
fiK^A: AUJ^::
Abai'sance, s. ouf|
W== To make an — to him : lYlKA^f::
Aba'ndon, r.«. T®:: Aft*!*^" *tjA” A^l'::
Abandoned, adj. PT'TIA" To be — : 'T n l
A:: T^ l ‘l:: TA« 1 ,< I > ::
Abandonment, s. state of being abandoned,
TTA°: oorC” the act of abandoning:
ouniA:: “^ft^C-
Aba'se, v.a.'H^: To —
the flag: mj££.OKl: ( c W ai J®''}:) A®
To — oneself: tT^:: i.fh'l:
::
Abated, part. PTY^K: ant ^ P®<^£ :: To
be —: TT^R:: ®^K ::
Abatement, s. iroq^J^*:: 01 J^ , 4 0 1"
Aba'sh, v. a.
Abasement, s. act. pass. & n.
Abate, v. a. AftYft.: AftT®" A®££::
A'h£A:: Vl—: To — the
taxes: 111C1: A®4K" He has abated
something of his right: Yl <5.
T®:: (L.T.) *\£:: To
— a writ: fJtfil: PT^fflflM: Y1Q’
w n l 1 ®:: ®^K ::
ITY" AYft" The storm abates: ^flhA 0 :
'l^J.ft: (or merely 'i:
A'bbess, s. Pl'L't*^: AA^P.1?::
A'bbe, A'bbey, A'bby, s.
Abbot, s. pqoiVH^: AAlP:: Eth. All:
9°^::
Abbreviate, v.a. A’lX^:: AftYft::
Abbreviation, s. o^flKC" OD ‘l ,J, ^T:: ,n jA
ift::
Abbreviator, s. AftH£:: AftPlY::
Abbreviature, s. Vid. Abbreviation.
Abe, s. 7U1A: in Abyss, language, UlhH.::
A / bdicate, v. a. AfirnT:: AftAGt lYm::
The king has abdicated the throne : :
ODnjW'jj'}: AftAGt lYm:: To abdi¬
cate a governor &c., Solomon abdi¬
cated Abiathar: |YA° C I D *'J : A'flJP^’C’^ :
Yll‘T OIJ 't 5 : H^::
Abdication, s. OTjiYPn^P” AftAflt fTI, ft
m^P:: ouHC” M^::
A'bdicative, adj. po^.Pl’lfUl’:: P^fiC"
iX^lYP-n^:: AlYf'fl’f*::
A'bditive, adj. Po^flil 0 !:: P^lYdPC”
Abdo'men, s.
Abdo'minal, adj. Plf^:: nU , J^’ : .PA" —
blood-vessels: P WR: OO" ~ muscle:
PU\K*: aO'flVhAfl::
Abdotninous, adj. belonging to the abdomen: p
&c. having a large abdomen:
Abdu'ce, v.a. Vl —: ®ft£:: Yl — : ^Aft::
(An.) f|P: A®^K :: flP = ®£ = A
®«1::
AbduVent, adj. (of muscles) ftp: po^.P®
££•:: ftP: po^^®^::
Abdu'etion, s. (the talcing away ) oufl^ftj^::
ABD
( 2 )
ABL
ABO
ABJ
a i KI>* fT Vt' :: (An.) (D£: OD|, | r n::
(DK : °^g : tro, Vn::
Abdu'ctor, s. (An.) hTEp>: or ow*
flY>A*fl::
Abecedarian, s. Ulh 1 !.*!: T^^:: ^nil'll
porjcnj£::
Abecedary, adj. PUU*H. : OD X , fh^.:: PU
U*q.: P^^n-fl: oijfn*
aVCy.:
A-be d, adv. RTOXG.: TT? 0
(n; or He is — : ::
Aberrance, s. flrlhfPT::
Aberrant, adj. •‘ 1 ’^::
Aberrarion, s. ^ilT::
Abe't, v.a. (to excite, stir up) (L.T.)
If you will — my quarrel: or»rr)A r t' r l: fl.
ntro^lAlr:
Abetment, s. TAl: (L.T.)
YioooiVp: ou££T::
Abet'tor, s. : P^JPlIluf:: The —of
a crime: PflKA^: qA^gvi.::
AbgregaTion, s. Yl aD 'i^J: onAPT"
Abhor, v.a. KA” Tl*I t I >t l > ::
Abhorrence, s. osi'PA'p::
Abhorrent, adj. po^XA:: P°^yfl<5,<5.::
Abi'de, v.n. f rtlflT::
XY:: Abide with me: flL: mjf: yc : or
't*«|>ODq‘:: Heaiidesin sin: Fl^fiLAT:
^XfA:: v.a. ffllH*:: You must — the
consequences: YlCl>: P n, UIH I KI)* i: (P
onaurqaK}.) Y1C-
A'bject, adj. PT^IA:: PTY^K" A*n: P
AAHP:: Vl r fl£: PA.AID*:: In an —
manner: 'PA 0 ::
Abje'ctedness, Abjec'tion, Ab'jectness, s. ouq>
S.y; frlTICT: 11,1 ’hY.A:: A IIT:
KA::
A bjectly, ac?u. TTCK” d-frl: TA»:: A ll
T: >£-A"::
Ability, s. ^A^P:: ^FAOPP:: ^A::
Abjudicate, ua. nQ.CK :
Abjugate, v.a. «P9°nCi: A(DA:: <£9°
no- A.?::
Abjurarion, s. fl^rhA: trainer::
Abju re, v.a. ^A": or TT^A 0 : Yl£::
Abla'ctate, v.a. (a child) lnflPT: HI*
Tl: ?ifl«!A:: (Gard.) y^pYlATl: (D
TT: TP: ^(D^::
Ablacta'tion, s. YlrtPT: trocp'-^T*:: flp^p'j:
o^fl^lA:: (Gard.) .p^VlAT'i: (DTT:
TP: 'J'HIP^VT::
Ablative, adj. A*nA'tyn::
A / ble,arfy.|f ! i p:: Po^’^A". ■Y , A°:: T^A°"
Tobe—: 5PA:: TjA" lam
not—. AKSrvST 10 ::
AT)le-bodied, adj. *)*■ A n J* 7°::
A'bleness, s. Vid. Ability.
AVligate, v.a. <5.^P ”
A bluent,an;v 7, ;"i: H A*::
Abodshable, adj. pcn^HC"
Abolition, s. ftf^p:: oroilC:: uq^r::
i*wT4/P:: «ro^.^n:: The — of the
Law: Pfh"J: (PA^T:) a^HC"
Abominable, adj. CYrft:: P<”i.PftX.6.::
PO^HIA:: PTXPX.::
Abo'minableness, s. CVrfliY*:: ^CT^rnA:
nnjK::
Abo minably, adv. nCTmtaT - AflX.C*¥*::
Abo minate, v.a. CYr-ft: U*Y: ‘P-HI^:: XA”
AbominaTion, s. ati^Ylfl:: CYp-fliT:: paq
H1A: mn^::
Aborigines, s. poogou^ ; TA'JC^"
Abort, v.n. CHYIX,::
ABO
ABR
( 3 )
ABR
ABS
Abo'rtion, s. The act of aborting :
The aborted foetus: and
Abo'rtive, adj. P 111 }.
Abo've, prep. & adv. f| AJJ:: In heaven above:
IIA^: nA«9.£:: One sat —, another
below me: MU.: Ylt: nA.P: toy.V°:
n:J-T-: :: His head was — the
water: <5.|>:Yl(D’^:(DT'f':^nC" 1 shall
easily get — them all: YllJ'A t F(D' : AD
AT: This is — my
capacity: yi£: AAA'rOPA9 11 :
(AA^AT* 1 .:)
Abo'und, v.n. AAOP” A£ ,a I: ooa::
AlfKi: (D"V:
Abo'ut, prep. & adv. fl —:: «PCP:: .PAIA"
f|—: HTI^" nln^A" The soldiers were
— him: YUlIh^:: HH C^”
I have no money — me: fli.: 'fU^:
PA^9°:: Look — you .-pfin^:: It is
a6oui this size: JPUAA"
Somewhere about Ankobar: mv*nc= n
YrA:: He is — it: AlK}: JPKClVA”
He is — forty years old: : A£H :
PUAA:: I shall speak to him
— it: flAHAJ: \1C.' ’AFT^TAU'::
Round —: 11H' :: A round about way:
What are you—? y 1 '}
£*C FKOAU”
Abracadabra, s. A'fl^Yl£'fl<5.::
1n¥: Pcnjna^^^O^: $*A::
Abra'de, v. a. <5.4*:: MD4."
Abra'sion, s. on^:;
Abreast, adv. ArtTHl: 11 Ami'll: (IlOTJq
Abri'dge, v. a. A^X^:: < P J -Cf n : AAlA::
To — a book: pcrojtrh^T: 11C : A A
*C‘-
Abridgment, s. : tJlAXC^:: An
abridged book: LPAT?*: P't’XX,: ou X’
tUQ,: Yioogoo^y; A^A,: VUt AA :
Abroa'd, adv. IIAt home and —: fill
*FF: n»9£:: or m<.F: I1A.A: A1C ::
I dined—: IIA,A: flQ.d.: flA
If*:: He returned from —: Ymj^l^T:
T^Art:: T^AI* 1 : in "-
A'brogate, v. a. Vid. Abolish.
Abrogation, s. Vid. Abolition.
Abru'pt, adj. < p*-C/V:: AJEX.X9 0 : PT*^”^
(11:: (sudden) ^ ,r nj 9 n ::
Abru'ptly, adv. t p*’£'P: A^C^" A£<5.X9°:
:: (suddenly.)
Abruptness, s. llj^*'il ; t’: ,,u ‘I**"
A'bscess, s. poD*]/\; tJ^AA::
Absco'nd, v. n. 'pAlT]::
Absco'nder, s. 'rAA*l.::
A'bsence, s. AA OIi TF ,? P:: AA^FC" 1 do
it in his —: ACAv- A£TS: Ai.: AtfO
TAlh:: — of mind: AA°^A r fl::
•IT::
A'bsent, adj. ^PATTV” To be —: He
is—from home: flfl/P: PAT®: or na-t=:
Abse'nt, v.n. : uij
A^p:: PM^^dM: aoh^p: AA*ro^.K9°::
Abstract, v.a. AP” A^f: (DAK" TnX 1 ^
■p: ®£ft: Yltrojtfhe.: 41H-: YTCT = 4^
Cf": ^A4»: n<.1: Afl4>^::
Abstract, s. Yl»<5/P: ®£ft: YlouR.,h6.:
P4>£: ^A4»: YT<.: PO'J^'I: YlO> : Yl
T«fr»<*m: R^.A”.
Abstrabted, part. PTAP:: TA.P'Y*: P4 > <£::
An — idea: RrhYA^t*: pail.tlH: PT
aiJrt-R: nC"
Abstractedly, adv. ATg^.P®':: TA^Af-::
Abstraction, s. uu/\P'*p:: IH1 (Ib
Ag*: Yl— ::
Abstractive, adj. pai^Ag:: A^: Pag®
Abstractly, adv. Vid. Abstractedly.
Abstru'se, adj. inj/vp: P’pfl®^::
Abstru'sely, adv. RR&A 01 !: mjflTTA: AT
Abstru'seness, s. PVHC CftAO^::
Absu'me, v.a. R'P4j*P: R*f^: <4.g::
Absu'rd, adj. PAYfi."
AbsuCdity, s. PATAA: HC :: *H
*7°: *fl A”: V IC -
Absurdly, adv. RflT^U”
Abubdance, s. ^PCG." 4144-:: ^A^*:: Yl
AYl: oru(|).nv'p ::
Abundant, adj. ^PC^. : JPA®*" YlAYT*: P°H
mm:: Ag*"!: Ag- 0 !”
Abubdantly, adv. R^PC^.” ol, A't’::
Abu'se, t).a. RAil" TRAfi" Afll4. :: YlT
1*: AgO” A3»AA” A^YlA:: TAgR"
Honmm::
Abu'se, s.oij^AA:: au-RAfi^F” aoCYlfl”
aipp^/F:: 'P4/F" AAvF^F"
Abu'ser, s. A4>A£:: TRAit:: AC^lfi- 1
TAgR."
Abu'sive, adj. A4*Ag” TRAlT,::
— language: TAgR.: YTC : or : or
merely ::
Abu'sively, ac?i>. AjFA" ” TRAlY't*:: 4* A
£*P”
Abu'ttal, Abu'tment, s. ffiAT"
Aby'sm, Aby'ss, s. 4 > Ag” TA*!*" PmAI 1 :
Aby'ssinia, n. pr. UR*!:: A R A ::
Acade'mical, adj. gYlgagg" AYlgoi^g:
gA"
Acade'mian, Academ'ic, Academician, Acad'e-
mist, s. adj. gYlgoi^g: 4*ai} : (D a in ; n: Ptnj^YlA
YlA: fl®*”
Accessary, s. Vid. Accessory.
Accessible, adj. (DKCfr 1 013
o|n^ ; pog^YlAYlA::
AcceSsion, s. ouj**^f|:: Acces¬
sion to a treaty: ®£ : : : 00
Accession to a crown : troTlJUJ”
Accessory, adj. PTCQ> oro ^::
A'ccident, s. Yi‘A a m.A4idi,c : p
ai^aorri: j. q. misfortune : o^Yl^.::
Accide ntal, adj. 'A'i£..P®’: fl®-: ■Y.Pfin
Accidentally, adv. flGp: *Y.P
A®-::
Accipient, s. r t' t P r IJZ”
Acclatm, Acclamation, s. Pgfl;p: UfcYl'P::
■?»AA: ^JAt:: >»AAJ::
Acclivity, s. A4*nY: and Ar. :: PlflltTO:: Ac¬
cordant with:
Accotding, prep. "AIK:: II —: oo ® *3 ”
Aceotdingly, adv. "A"^:: ‘A'lRAJ::
AccoSt, v.a. E^fl" TfV:: To salute T [ 'l
Aotj:: AlS't: KJ: AA”
Accotnt, v. a. 4MI1 :: I — him a good man :
fl®*: I®': MAI}-:: v.n. *P$m
He accounts with his manager: Yio»;j
ao^: 36.: ^jm<5.A:: How do you ac¬
count for this? PHAJ: ‘roYn.P'Y’: 9°1
J^C : I® 1 : 'PAAtJ::
Account, s. 4 v -'l*£t:
The merchants —: Pl^J^: Jpfl^IL:: He
did it on your —: ftAlT: AKO® 1 '--
To settle accounts: oojmO:
A'lmtro;: To turn to an account: <"1 =
To call to —: ® d, :' He gave an account
of his doings: JPg^')®*'*: rift AGEUD
'p:: He gave a good account of his brother:
SUP' ®£>: A®^: flA: ®1^00’"
I have no account of him, since he has left:
■ACI> : n^A: ®^(IP: AA££
1*1^9°:: On this —: flAH.il:: FJKH:
OD il r I < P ; P:: On no—: Yl *f-: (with nega¬
tion). On any —: .P®*::
Accountable, adj. P a 9.$® fjnt" They are
— for their conduct: flA: A' ir lch,.£ : P® ,:
JJJfll^nTTA: or flA: A 1 1(h.^ : f(D’:
^^h^ya-
Accouple, v.a.
Accoutre, v.a. AH^g" hAtro::
Accoutrement, s. j'iA9 D ::
Accru'e, v.n. (to grow) A.P/1 " To arise by pro¬
fit: nH:: What good will accrue from it ?
9 n T: T4>o9: ^®«in^A::
Accumulate, v.a. fulfill:: At 011 " AllH::
v.n. nH”
Accumulation, s. oo>flq^:: 'OH'p:: 9**
Ap".: n. oqfl4p :: a .
Accumulative, adj. pcrqi.pnH: act. poi£
nH: n.
Accumulator, s. fpn*Yll.:: A^ 11 ^:: AlTC”
Accuracy, s. »n:: AY!: au in:: tl9 TJ »YA
Oh: A1H41::
Accurate, adj. 4*T:: AYl:: < 1T9 tJ ::
ACC
ACQ
( 6 )
ACQ
ACT
Accurately, adv. Aft: |>r:: "ITT 0 : HA“::
Accu'rse, v.a. OdO::
Accur'sed,|)flrf. PT
^od: /. — cro‘^ ::
AccuSable,- adj. troYlClCl: P° fl t^F , A:-
Accu sation, s. |*|f|:: uqi^rri^r:: injcn
Al*"
Accusative, adj. po^Vlfl:: P°^XJE^.::
AccuSe, v.a. YllTlT:: KP<5.:: THPA." (D4*
Cl:: A'HA::
AccuSer, s. Yl»lh:: A^H*" ft'*!#::
AccuStom, v. a. AClA 01 ^" v - re fl • A 013 ^"
AccuStomable, adj. pnijy\no ^-::
AccuStomary, adj. PTA 110 ^::
,£"• .PA "
AccuStomed, part. adj. PA 015 ^-* I am — t°
it: >**.: ACTO^li^::
AceScent, adj. pcn^on^-^;;
AcetoSe, Ace'tous, adj. trox^Jt:: P^XX::
Ache, s.
Ache, v.n. /qnunu(p’j;; My head aches
me: <5.Cl: .POU^A::
Achieve, v.a. A£0 :: Cl^v X.X 00 :: To
obtain: ATT"
Achievement, s. AK^-O”- Cl£.::
AchiSver, s.
Aeid, adj. ora
Acidity, Aeidness, s. nitX::
Acidulate, v. a. '?<£*•: AooXX"
Acknowledge, v. a. A®*!*:: I — my faults:
301 .AtT: l-^^AU-:: To — kindness
experienced: lUflA^: TCil* 1 A 00 1*1
TV:: A^KAlIrHC-^Cimg): AA:: To
— a letter: A ol) A'AVl i; r: 9 t, Afl'i: (, si
ACl::
Acknowledgment, s. thanks: 9 D fl3t' :: ^ c ~
knowledgment for services: orofiml*:: fl<^Yl
1*:: £ tju fl) H,:: Acknowledgment of sins:
3m.A*m: oo^j'iJD'}:: Acknowledgment
of a letter: PtJOA^Vll’: 9«Ah::
Acoestics, s. poufltiij^: pj*-
■‘P9 n UC‘1’: ®£fl: "A®^^".
Acquaint, v.a. Afl;f’® c I > ::
Acquaintance, s. "A(D ,< | > 't':: concr.
Acquainted, adj. P1*(D^*:: He is — with
this matter: £im: VTC= .P®’9 > A"
AcqueSt, or AcquiSt, s. oq'JT T::
AcquieSce, v. n. n^: AA:: PUP: V©*:
AA:: "AiT.: AA"
Acquiescence, s. n^: OIJAI’:: ’AM:
A’t’"
Acquire, v.a. ATT::
Acquirement, s. injT*P1* :: Mental —: "Am*
•ft:: 'flAMl::
Acquisition, s. d^ITI':: TTHU:: ll'fl'T"
AcquiS v. a. ACltl: Affl^l ” AVX”. AA
□ PA®/ 0 : HA: AH®'::
Acquittal, s. AOT: c"!®'"!^:: YinpAP:
YlYPll.: ""A**" a^TiX^::
ASre, s. P9 l3 J£ , £: OD fl<5.C^ : SSSi! FQ,
p*: n®c^*P: ncH 00 ^"
Ac'rid, adj. VV)Fj: ’ATS'- ao XX"
AcrimoWious, adj. VVjfjp: ao££::
ASrimony, s. pau^X; ®£f|:
ClA^p:: PX*A: T”
ASritude, AcSity, s. flA^f: ao k'l ; t*: A£: PTHd.:
Ptn3L^**IP(IP:: A speech:
V1C ::
Addu'ce, v. a. A CTDa l ”
Addudent, s. A 01 )^:: Adducent muscle: A
ro'fiYpA’fl::
Ade'pt, .9. T 0, J^::
Adequate, arfj. TilTI’A" a !'P9 n :: A 00,00 ”:
Adequately, adv. "AYl'A: Ihf :: *l r V l l !5 :: TlY
: or
Adequateness, s. "AYpAVt*:: ^fllT:: 00 lY
oqoi]q>::
Adhete, v.n. Tl*l :: TIIIJ::
TYl't’A::
Adhetence, s. ourrj n ^:: era Yl *t* A:: of seve¬
ral things or persons together : uorrjrj flip::
Adhetent, adj. poq/h 11*1*:: P ,Il J.fll.T::
Adhetent, Adhe'rer, s. TYl^’^” (DTi::
Adhedion, s. Vid. Adherence.
Adhedive, adv. pui^ri^n^:: pa*±0\2::
Adhibit, v.a. |*|fll::
Adliibition, s. OD firn ,f l'”
Adja'cency, s.
Adjadent, adj.
Adjedt, v.a. CtL 010 ^::
Adjective, adj.
Adjo in, v.a. AiYotJO^:: CacnJ^::
Adjotning, part. Ep»aij^ : : Adjoining country :
J^9 Dr flC ::
Adjodrn, v.a. AAA: Afl«$P::
Adjodrnment, s. AAA: ‘P'i: ^fl’PP'l’::
Adjudicate, v.a. n&CK”- AlYdP: lYfll::
Adjugate, v. a. m^ 1 : ::
Adjuration, s.
Adjure, v. a. A 01 ?A ::
Adjust, v.a. Tm::
Admiralship, 9. PTl-M*: ou^YlP^P: AA
4 *^::
Admiralty, 9. poo'i a jjUiq-: ^^YlP^l:
YIO PORflHl^: fill::
Admiration, s.
Admire, v.a. A^^" AYlIl^::
Admirer, s. A^-f^:: AYl«l£::
Admissible, adj. po^in:: peeoj^YlAYlA::
Admission, 9. o^Yn't':: AA^YIAYIA::
Admit, v.a. ATH” aD«in'T'i: l*UH:: AAYl
AYl AT 0 ” trop. >»i\: AA" AAYlJ^T 15 ::
ADM
ADV
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ADV
ADU
Admittable, adj. Vid. Admissible.
Admittance, s. Vid. Admission.
Admonish, v.a. o oYi*':: A on l:: AHH:: 1
UUK ::
Admo'nisher, s. onlr|^:: lu{Ep.::
Admonition, s. ouguYlC" ,,l),J IUUK':: •PVl
C.:: T a / u />f::
Admonitory, adj. troYl^? 5 :: lUJXf"
Ado', 5 . .tr'l'T 0 ”
Adolescence, s. InUll 1 :: >0
HP::
Ado'pt, v.a. ^2": TtllA" AS,!:
I adopt your opinion: ncu ; a
fLT: 1H::
Ado'ption, s. — into family: oun
A” —into God’s family: PX^J: Aj^Y'i’::
Ado'rable, adj. tJU|*n^: A ,,f J.in®*::
Adoration, s. fng't::
Ado're, v.a. mK" met. TiYin^::
Ado'rn, v.a. HA :: AlVlX:: with clothes:
>iKd."
Adornment, s. |lAT 0 " T.X-:: aD l"VX
d?-
Ado'wn, prep. ®£:
Adrift, adv.toF^y(D': fl®^: A£: rtv.£: =
Adroit, adj. "flAnT?"
Adroitly, adv. fl'TIA 1 !'!’::
Adroitness, s.
Adry', adj. X 1 ^:: poi^X 111 /::
Adscititious, adj. PTGU, 011 ^:: E0>o^i::
Adstriction, s.
Adva'nce, v.n. ^goo;: n^:
m:: v.a. Afl‘!>.P/«>:: A®"!:: lll nn
dp: He advances in knowledge: n® ,< ! >
*= ygrDAzi To — an opinion: A^IKJ:
(An*!’-) A®*n:: I advanced him some
money: YVfl<.: AjPAii: lYmih^: /.IT
(O’: *l£KC»Y ::
Advance, s. od^j^^O” uu*j>y_yn
Advanced, part. 11 *1*^9°: (n*5/t*:) ^A"
He is — in years :
Advancement, s. ou 4 , g9 n :: a 9fl < I > £9 ia ::
Advantage, s. ^9°:: 'y3 >D 9:: dpfl:- ^
CG."
Advantage, v.a. :: A d *\::
Advantageous, adj. 'Pjl* 01 /,:: Po^m^*? 0 ::
PO 1 /.^:: dpf}:.
Advanta'geously, adv. OT^T 0 ” Il^Tl::
Advanta'geousness, s. oo # p<|> 9 U::
Adve'nient, adj. P cn J > CEI> ol, C ::
Ad'vent, s. P^Cfl^fl: ouyurry|*::
Adve'nture, v. n.
Adve nture, s. A'1£.P®': fU?G.£T: PIT*:
11 C ; : By—: idigya*': n^Ad>::
Adve'nturer, s. .PA: KU'll'K!: t\
'¥■: £4.6"
Adve'nturous, adj. P°^K6.C : J
A4»: IICI: h + ::
Adve'nturously, adv. ny^Q^d^Vi’: nA°9l*I
■11: JPA^: \lCpl- ntroil^::
A'dverb, s. P^A: tp.oij^::
Adversary, s. XA’Y*”
Adve'rsity, s. enmity: XA^l’Y 1 ’:: distress:
CTD Yl£.:: EP’TI’T::
Adve'rt, v. n. ®n < ! > ::
Adve'rtence, Advertency, s. oronin^*::
Advertise, v. a. mA»: Af iT
® : YY^A©^: ££*: «OAffiT: A^TIF::
AffeCted, part. He is — with a disease:
nh^: AAnt:: She is — with sadness:
;THt7YY:: I was affected by his words:
YI<.: ©£: Aft: ’IP" Well—: puij.
Ill—: po^KA:: Artificial: A
©'Vt': JPAIT1::
Affe ctedly, ac?r. n-nYl-A” mTVHF::
AffeCtedness, s. "J'fl'HF:: Yid. Affectation.
Affecting, part. PO^YC^" ®K : All: P
o'i’in:: A!F1: P
AffeCtion, s. (l)'.Y':: OTj a>£.K* ::
Affectionate, adj. S><.: PHH::
Affectionately, adv. n ©* £* : O 6J/F £C:
AffeCtive, adj. ©£: ATI: pui;pl:: All'}:
pinion-j’;;
AfliCnce, s. oofimjaijC" A matrimonial
—: tnjCCh'Y’:: Affiance in God: n’iVlH,
ATldi,C : tro^oo-}::
Affiance, v. a. A <&!,:: To be affianced: ^
•-* .
Affidavit, s. nonffiA: PTHA: ^llYlCC:
AffiCd, part. P^CCl^:: CO>f:: pa^p.'f:::
Affiliation, s. a£ , 'J: AA^'i^:
tTO< S>nA::
Affinage, s. P 1 / 11 JA'C: "
Affined, adj. PH 00 ^" H 00 ^"::
Affinity, s. 'H9°^*P:: 'H9 T, ^ ,? P::
AffiCm, v. a. AgDT: AA:: ’A©'!'!*’}: A
XF" A©-VT: Ag^l::
Affitmable, adj. AdM’Y’: PO^HA"
Affirmation, s. A K9 n : PT'l A::
Afrafd , part. He is—: _P<5,£.'A::
Afre'sh, adv. KRtl::
Affer, prep. & adv.
Afferbirth, s. PTfViJ: A,^' ::
Aff ermath, s. U'A'VV- P^GCIK- ^OC”
Affernoon, s. In the —: Yl^O n^A::
Afferpains, s. n tTX, 0> , A 1 K*: 11'Jr, A: .PA:
Afferthought, s. AA"0::
Afferwards, adv. n^A:: C£T" Generation:'
Period : H^T”
A 7 ged, adj. A^T,: »»• ACT/t*: /•
A'gency, s. f|^:: oq^ 0 !:: esp.
T" Tfllt::
A 7 gent, s. |*l£:: Aj^d/l.:: esp. oug 1 ^’}::
K: A A: flGP: JPA^,: H
!£-: P^i^A: OlH'fl)::
Alienate, v.a. (TJHIM:) AG) HI ” fig. Pfl
GP1*. A-tl: na)^E,= AJE: Afi4£”
A'lienated, adj. PTAGHI): (TiH'fl):: fig.
AG)£E/ PIT*: An-9°: PTA
Pfl*:: PtAP"
Alienation, s.
tJO AP^P”
Alight, n. (Ylfl*A°: G)Kfl: Yl^flO
(D6Z--
Ali'ke, adv. ODf|ft» :: >»YhA: IPf :: A1 £*:
Iff:: adj. pmitninA:: >iTn’A:: AlJ^::
Al'iment, s. 9 n "ITI" ^A 1 !!::
AFimental, adj. poi^oo‘ , j'f|:: ptn^tpA'fl"
ALI
ALL
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ALT
Alimentary, adj. py'TIl:: PTA'fl"
Alimo / nious, adj. i.q. Alimental.
AFimony, s. TriHAT: I’Ll 1 : 9°°!
r fl < P”
Ali ve, adj. (lihJifflT: JPA” AH
9^:: AlVrV#:: <5,1111::
All, adj. IhA*:: AH men: I*|(D’: IPA*:: When
— is done: IPA: 1ntKO : n^A” After
—: n 00 ^*!:: Nothing at — : 9° 19°
'i:: PA9°”
Alla y, v. a. 9°^A ol fl: .WHA#: A'l’AHl”
trop. hO" KT: hl*lT::
Allay, s. Al*^: 9°:PA: Pim 00 ^ J^'fl
A*!*:: ^C^Tlfl”
Allege, v. a. Ylllap: 2\£: (DJEfl: Yl»°X
rfift: V70 : A9 n flVlC :
AFlegeable, adj. A9 D flVlC : P^IH"
Alleged, pari A9 D flllC: PTHA::
Alle'giance, s. gHf :
Allegiant, adj. ttR: fh°|: PoUgKC 0 *-*
Allegorical, adj. n9 lJI 1 A: PO^VIC" 09°
OA,: PT r lA”
AFlegory, s. 9 T,l "lA»::
Alle'gro, s. ¥Yl^A: tTO'lX'l::
AlleViate, v.a. A^AA"
Alleviation, s. °9^AA::
Al ley, s. PKAA:
AllFance, s. AlJE-i^:: Yl.g
T" HA^’O^:: (Dgg-*^::
Allies,s.a>ir^:: (Dgg'^f:: nA'ig'C^"
Alligation, s. 09 UJ(^::
Alligator, s. J*A^ > : AH"
Allocation, 5 . on Q^OD^:: OTjf|*|>(JO'p::
Allocution, s. ctd{”]£::
Allot, v.a. nog : Vl^A::
Allotment, s. 00" nOO: PTO®: Vl£J.A"
Allow! v.a. T(D”. AAY1AY1A9 11 " AH
H” 1‘im:: Oni"
Allowable, adj. pcnj^YlAYlA:: P^T::
Allowance, s. ^A«ll:: ^PAHTI:: (roftm
'T:: gou^H," AAau^mC”
Alloy! s. Vid. Allay.
Allude, v.a. flA= — : TV1C” A A::
Allu're, v.a. no^CDK^: nc= AXOTJJ^::
Allute, s. (DX’ 00 ^'::
AlhFrement, s. AOXJX-oug: PTKO-
: V1C ::
Allu'sion, s. flA: —:
Allu'sive, adj. f|A: — : Po^nC"
Ally! v.a. A'VK’I^P: Y\R£1" (Dgg**^:
AKO”
Ally!s. (DTI" ®g£*:: nA'lgvJ." H
AFmanac, s. AAoolVl:: «Ti: IhA: P”9,
‘p-mcni’: OTJSPdiC."
AlmFghty, adj. & s. IP A’'}: ;F.£:: IhA-T:
Pot^A" ILA- 5: Pmi.P'H::
AFmond, s. AflPTI"
AFmonds of the throat, ym*: fiC-:
AFmoner, s. PTHT ou»T^::
Altnonry, s. ^JtTT: P^rtTnT: flC
OXJ 9 n X®5 5 "
Almo'st, adv. T1?T: .PHA”
Alms, s. 9 D X ,< P ; ^ , "
AFmshouses, s. P^JtTT:
Atoes, s. ‘Ar^T”
Alott, adv. nA^::
Alo'ne, adj.
Alo'ng, a4 nCTl^T" nimn”
Aloo'f, a&. TA^:: Afl^db"
Alo'pecy, s. PX>^: ^'PAT::
Alou'd, adv. nj-A^*: J^*9 n X*::
AFpha, s. AA<4"
AFphabet, s. IJLP 1 ^::
Alphabetical, adj. PUlhH,"
Already, adv. d.X’d 0 ::
AFso, adv. ^"/(p*:;
Altar, s. odUKD'^"
Atter, v. AQ)fH ::
Alterable, adj. ; po^-^A::
Alterant, adj. pcn^AGKl*" AT^"
Alteration, s. OIJ A® , V" ^AtDT::
Alterative, adj. A t P t P»: (ODj^^Y/p)”
Altercation, s. Xfl " *1C*K"
Alternate, adj. YlA,A: IJ6- - n P’l.HAD’: T
A*P(Dm::
Alternately, adv. nAdhT" TATflH 11 ::
Alternation, s. odat®?::
Alternative, s. YlU’A^f: AP: Y1C.: MJf::
Although, adv. OjE^PC"
ALT
AME
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ANA
Altimetry, s. PT^.C'Y-’'}: Y]^.J: (ro A'l , T"
Al titude, s. Yl^-T" Yl£: ^AT:: AO
Af:: — of a mountain: £T-| 00 T::
Altogether, adv. n^9°::
A'lum, s. AA9°::
Alu'ininous, adj. AA'9 15 : .PAnY*"
Al'ways, adv. (DTC”
Amai'n, adv. n^A:: m.K”. Aj^C*”
Amal'gam, s. P9 n T A’Y': ^IIA^: Run Y
AT: P 01 *^ 0 !:
AmaFgamate, v.a. 9°h^Al 1 ': £R
AT" AP: YlCTb gRAT”
AmanuenSis, s. J PflT in )£: Md."
Amas'ment, s. ou|*|-r jYr^P:: OTJ jl^ r R:: Yl
Amass', v.a. Yl 110 ^::
Amateu'r, s.
AmauroSis, s. P^^l: od^hH"
Ama'ze, v.a. Afl£lT" I am amazed:
iTR'"
Ama'ze, s. oiip^::
Ama'zement, s.
Ama'zing, part. P^.PflK'?^::
Ama'zingly, adv. Afl^TT"
Ambassador, Embass'ador, s. uoaYITYs:
Ambassadress, s. tn, AllT? 3 B.1 5 ::
Am'bassage, AnFbassade, s. (JD A’AYlT:: 110
AYl::
Am'ber, s. A^TId."
Ambigu'ity, s. R|>AT: (DIT: P^d.T 1
nc"
Ambig'uous, adj. RlhAT:
POT^A:: T.9°: nC-yAlfl"
Ambig'uously, adv. RlhAT: (DTT: ■flA"::
Ambig'uousness, s. RITA*!’: (DTI: °9AT::
Ambition, s. YlTD: YlYlO-
Ambitious, adj. YlTT" YlTT: YlTICT: P
Ambulation, s. ihhhi/\/\ ft "
Ambusca'de, Ambusca'do, Am'bush, s. croftcro
TjP” ouftauT::
Ame'n, adv. A m iT::
Ame'nable, adj. pun^^^j^-RY*::
Amend', v. AHA:: (DT 00 ::
Amend'ment, s. onjilA:: OUT
T9 15 ::
Amend's, s. ACR-T:: 'lO"
Ame'nity, s. oijcro^:: TJ^A” M 51 ? 55 ::
Am ethyst, 5. A^TftflLf fl ::
A'miable, adj. P I,, J.(I)V„^'::
A'miableness, s. n,, (l)F,,P': : M 5 9 1 °^Y’::
Am'icable, adj. TC :: H^T^: .PA”
Am'icably, adv. R(J.TC ::
Ami'd, Ami'dst, adv. nt*9YiA:: YluuTiYlA"
Ami'ss, adv. T°I,R*(3^::
Am'ity, s. e^*C"
Ammunition, s. PJ: n 5 ^: T^AT" PH9°
;p: ou-H’HI::
Am'nesty, s. £TCT : AR^P’^F 1 ::
Amo'ng, Amo'ngst, prep. R—:: RoiiYiYlA::
RQbA 5J ‘P::
Am'orous, adj. PTODf::
Am'orously, adv. R^TCDY*::
Amo'rt, adj. po^JPTiTf:: AHTrF::
Amou'nt, v. n. AYl A" It amounts to a hun¬
dred dollars: ou-f-: ■RQ: ^^FIAA"
Amou'nt, s. P09.^tJA:: PITA*: T'-TC"
Amphib'ious, adj. rh^®T: RdF
ODfC : P°9.5PA::
Am'ple, adj. 1*1 <5,:: A£*°I:: IlH-::
Am'pleness, s. ft4.T:: H4T::
Amplif'icate, v.a. AlY»Tfli1^:: f .—
‘lyi-::
Animaieule, s. Jfll: lA'iflA: 'll
J: poq^^*^::
Animate, v.a. ^®TT:fim:: AfhP®:
A1H: AKO”
Animate, adj. rlhJK.® *T : .PAfl) 1 ::
Animated, part. fti.P®':: TT'PA 0 ::
Animation, s. rh.pffil*:: Av£®T*T: 00 fl
mT"
Anhmative, adj. fh.£(D'M: fl , lY"-
Animos'ity, s. RAT1T" AAffOdh^^ 1 ::
Aiiise, s. pYlfJO'T: A^IT::
An'ker, s. ATf^flC” P^q.d.fl: iX : ^fld,
C y ■ iriATf::
An'kle, s. l l» s (fl>y n tji. uij Y ::
Annalist, s. PTdVl: A.^ aD ‘f s : T*lfi
A°T”
An'nals, s. qoruT: no°T: PTlTld,A: T
dYl::
Annex', v.a. nooftEi^fi: ER,oo< , i ::
Annexes, odqjuo^::
Annihilate, v. a. :: Aflld.”
Annihilation, s.
Anniversary, s. ^ 00 ^: O^A::
An'no Doniini, s. n^lCfl+fl: HAST: A
OO'Y::
Annota tion, s. RauR-dh^.: ^£"1: »d.TT:
Aoo^^T: U-f = PTOUAYlT:
PTHd.9* 3 : nC ::
Announce, v. a. A®d.:: (DrV3: TF'M=:
Anno'y, v. a. Afield".
Annoyance, s.
Annoy'er, s. Afi'T.’Jd::
An'nual, adj. quoT: 'lOD'Y: ^A”
Annually, adv. qauT: H 00 ^::
Annuitant, s. qou^; r|oiJT: PTT”d®A
TT: IlHA: Poqi®f|^-: ^flTn.l 0 ^:
^dfl”
Annu ity, s. qaxiT: n°oT: Afh.£(DT: Lh
A*: PTlH,^m: T^Hll::
ANN
ANT
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ANT
ANY
Annul', v. a. A-
An'swer, v. a. ou/yi*|:: 9°AilT: l*lfD::
An'swer, s. ^Afi"
An'swerable, ac?/. 9°All: P^d.A"!!!^"
Ant, s. *Kip'?::
Antagonist, •?. XAT ” 1 A '3d.::
Antarctic, adj. HyiHl: oufly-CEl,: H-^P:
PA"
Antece'de, v. n. ‘Pp 0 **:: fl<5/P: ITl”
Antecedence, s. 00 ^ 70 -.;
Antecedent, adj. P fI 7'l , .^'9 l,::
Antecedent, s. poU^go: net:
.PA: 9 DI 1A.::
Antecham'ber, s. : n P9 n : (fl<5/P :)
PA" pa^pp^::
Anteriority, s. ai0 «I»p9 n ::
An them, s. P'f«l , Pft: nou^Pft^: P^R
H ol, C: ^5*"
Antholdgy, s. pnP^F 1 : troft'flft'fiP::
Anthropopliagi, s. 5 *i(!>'?:
Antic, adj. pp-p:: >iip: n^PT 0 : A n 9
P*:
Antic, s. |*J
Antichrist, 5 . fhft«p: PftCft*?'
fl: KAl’::
Antichristian, adj. Pfhft^:: Ap*Cl ”
Anticly, adv.
Antidotal, adj. oup*H T: P ^ ft £::
Antidote, s. «Top*m: P^'t’ilC*- 00 P’
JY/V::
Antefe'brile, adj. P"IPP*:
Antimony, s.
Antino'mians, s. P^XA*:
Antinomy, s. e * li X'Ai'::
Antip'athy, .?. AA orD © , PP*:: XATVl' ”
Antipodes, s. U’A'T^: (DTT: p
A*: ’Alt.-Vartp' : ®P:'A a l^.‘' f fT: P lI 9.
P» 1 P: 1 *!^)^::
Antiquatian, Antiquary, s. YiPC : P't’<^<5.
(D^T: po^Ai9°: f\GP::
Antiquate, v.a. AP”C : H°°l: ‘P'-'PCt
Antique, adj. PP’p::
Antique, s. YiP’p: H^T: PT^: Y?C ::
Antiq'uity, s. pp*!^: H 00 !::
Antisep tic, .?. < 709 ^: P9 lJ t'YSAlrl A : 00
P-^W::
Antithesis, s. «SIp: Yl(] Ap: PT'IA:
Y1 C”
Antitrinita'rian, s. PA^Alt,: XA^::
A'ntitype, s. PW1 1 : 9 DI *IA.:
Antitypical, adj. PA^T: 9 0 | HiA: P^d.X
9 n nt’-:
Antre, s. "
Aiivil,.?. cro^ij::
ANX
APO
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Anxi'ety, Anxiousness, s. A^'fl:: T^ll-L”
Anx ious, adj.
A'ny , adj. Any man: Aiy*" lI1 J r }9 u ::
Any thing : 9® '• '■ ::
Aorta, s.
Apa'ce, adv. ■Y’A 0 ::
Apart, adv. ATI^d*-:: TAJ&f ”
Apartment, s. PfVt*:
Apathy, s. hA ulJ 9°*!: ‘Igy^:
^JA^T::
Ape, s. TnS"C :: tr0 V- A(5.l't*: ■‘lyfl'fl: A
ATJ: lap: pu^YlTA: [lOP::
Ape'rieut, s. LTJ^T: PT^PYl^/t*: oag
3Vt* ::
A'pertion, s.
Ap erture, s. cnuVl<5/p:: PTYl^T:
Ape'talous, adj. PAAd>: (Ann):*-
A'pex, s. £.fj:: ftAp::
Aphelion or Aphe'lium, s. A<5„AP‘1“ PX
Apiary, s. Pi'll: “ort-flrt-fiy::
Apie'ce, adv. TYl^A”: fYl^.A°:: RP^
A'pisli, Po^ouflA:: flYS."
Apocalypse, s. An ^A^lXfl::
PP’rtilfl: d.*A,£::
Apocalyptical, adj. PAfl'pA'T^lXfi::
Apoc rypha, s. A#Xl£4/.: A nn X‘fhf»,'. 4*^
ft: PTCO> OD <.: "Alg: pFC*?**: yAlf
yAT^KlV*? 0 : cro^/h^i’::
Apocryphal, adj. PA£ft£4,:: AlJ?: A£
yA::
Apoc'ryphally, adv. "A1£: A£fa 64* :: HA
£Xl£X.::
Apologe'tical, adj. Yl^Vlftft: Po^yiX::
A(l) rM: piiU PKV::
Apologize, v.a. oufrl^l: y]£ : oufrn
ftl: *1^::
Apol'ogy, s. OTJXliyX*1: 0ii
ftftftl: ooilC”
Apos tacy, s. P9£ OI iFP: Xl.P/t*:: 0°°^::
Apostate, s.
Apostatize, v.n. ^g::
Apostle, s. diTCy-
Apoth'ecary, s. puuj^Y/p; *‘jy t I 1 k::
Appa'U’.a. Aflgll’:: Afl<5,^.::
Apparatus, s. Xj:: Pft9»C- AimAmA:: Ctl9°
C ft'PA:: ca 010 ^::
Append age, s. o«aiooCy ::
o»M::
Appendant, s. Tai 01 ]^:: trotU.
jsiij’y;;
Append'ant, Appe'nded, adj.
Appenilix, s. o^COATOCy::
Appertain, v.n. AA" T‘l r l::
Apper'tinent, adj. yt\:: pa^TH::
Appetence, s. on :: oo ft :;
Ap'petite, s. ooi*ir :: pou*fi^p : pou'p'Jp;
oo’ir:: Strong—:
Applau'd, v.a. AYlfJ<^:: A 00 ! 1 !!!::
Applau se, s. XHICt: 0*1: A^Otl: t^A^::
Ap'ple, s. ::
Applicable, adj. Po^J^C^fl::
Application, s. a 9P*rf|:: trojPVfi:: troy.
ou^Yl-A::
Appli'er, Applicant, s. pon^:: pcn^^^y®!:
ridh::
Apply', v.n. d.A’1:: v.a. A
y