ገነት

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Amharic

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Etymology

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From Aramaic גִינְּתָא (ginnəṯā) / ܓܰܢܬܳܐ (gannəṯā), also via Ge'ez ገነት (gännät). Doublet of ጀነት (ǧännät) that came from the same source via Arabic.

Noun

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ገነት (gännät) (plural also ገነታት (gännätat))

  1. garden, park, or any luxuriant stead
  2. Paradise

References

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  • d’Abbadie, Antoine (1881) “ገነት”, in Dictionnaire de la langue amariñña (Actes de la Societé Philologique; 10[1]) (in French), Paris: F. Vieweg, column 857
  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 2005a–b

Ge'ez

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Etymology

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From Aramaic גִינְּתָא (ginnəṯā) / ܓܰܢܬܳܐ (gannəṯā).

Noun

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ገነት (gännätf (plural ገነታት (gännätat))

  1. garden, park, or any luxuriant stead
  2. Paradise

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Tigrinya

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Etymology

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From Aramaic גִינְּתָא (ginnəṯā) / ܓܰܢܬܳܐ (gannəṯā). Doublet of ጀነት (ǧännät) that came from the same source via Arabic.

Noun

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ገነት (gännät)

  1. Paradise
  2. or any luxuriant stead

References

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