ኵናት

Ge'ez

Alternative forms

ኲናት (kʷinat)

Etymology

From Akkadian 𒄀 (qanûm).

Noun

ኵናት • (kʷənat) (plural ኵያንው (kʷəyanəw), and ኰያንው (kʷäyanəw), and ኰዋንው (kʷäwanəw), and ኵናታት (kʷənatat), and ኲናታት (kʷinatat))

lance, javelin, shorter or generic spear
sword
arms
war

Further reading

Dillmann, August (1865) “ኲናት”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 870–871
“ኲናት”, in Ancient Ethiopic TraCES Corpus (of Beta maṣāḥǝft), Hamburg, 2014–2019
Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 288b

Tigrinya

Etymology

From Akkadian 𒄀 (qanûm).

Noun

ኵናት • (kʷənat)

lance, javelin, shorter or generic spear
(figurative) soldiers, army

Further reading

da Bassano, Francesco (1918) “ኵናት”, in Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray (in Italian), Rome: Casa editrice italiana di C. de Luigi, column 628
da Bassano, Francesco (1918) “lancia”, in Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray (in Italian), Rome: Casa editrice italiana di C. de Luigi, column 1176

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