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^[1], 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

• ስሬ (sərre)

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)‎^[2], 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^[3], volume 1, number 1, →DOI, page 79
• Munzinger, Werner (1865) “ሱሪ”, in Vocabulaire de la langue tigré (in French), Leipzig: T.O. Weigel^[4][5], page 21

Tigrinya

Alternative forms

• ስረ (sərrä), ስሬ (sərre)

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^[6], volume 1, number 1, →DOI, page 79