ሢራይ

Ge'ez

Alternative forms

• ሥራይ (śəray), ሤራይ (śeray)

Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic שִׁירָאָה (šērāʾā), שִּׁירָא (šērā, “silk; a kind of silk garment”), ultimately from Chinese 絲 (MC si, “silk”).

Noun

ሢራይ • (śiray) (plural ሢራያት (śirayat))

1. a kind of costly vestment

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “ሢራይ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 263–264
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 536b