ሱሪ

Amharic

Alternative forms
  • ሱሬ (surre)

Etymology

A Cushitic borrowing.

Noun

ሱሪ • (surri) (plural also ስራውር (sərawər))

  1. trousers, pants

References
  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 481b–482a
  • Leslau, Wolf (1945) “The Influence of Cushitic on the Semitic Languages of Ethiopia: a Problem of Substratum”, in Word‎, volume 1, number 1, →DOI, page 79
  • Leslau, Wolf (1976, 1993) Concise Amharic Dictionary: Amharic-English: English-Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 51a

Tigre

Alternative forms

Etymology

A Cushitic borrowing.

Noun

ሱሪ • (surri) (plural ሰረሪት (särärrit))

  1. trousers, pants

References
  • Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)‎, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 176a
  • Leslau, Wolf (1945) “The Influence of Cushitic on the Semitic Languages of Ethiopia: a Problem of Substratum”, in Word‎, volume 1, number 1, →DOI, page 79
  • Munzinger, Werner (1865) “ሱሪ”, in Vocabulaire de la langue tigré (in French), Leipzig: T.O. Weigel, page 21

Tigrinya

Alternative forms

Etymology

A Cushitic borrowing.

Noun

ሱሪ • (surri)

  1. trousers, pants

References
  • da Bassano, Francesco (1918) “ስረ”, in Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray (in Italian), Rome: Casa editrice italiana di C. de Luigi, column 176
  • Leslau, Wolf (1945) “The Influence of Cushitic on the Semitic Languages of Ethiopia: a Problem of Substratum”, in Word‎, volume 1, number 1, →DOI, page 79
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