እስራኤል

Ge'ez

Etymology

From Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל.

Noun

እስራኤል • (ʾəsraʾel)

1. (biblical) Israel (A Biblical region of Western Asia roughly coextensive with the modern State of Israel, known in the Bible as the Land of Israel and considered the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people)

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “እስራኤል”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel

Tigrinya

Noun

እስራኤል • (ʾəsraʾel)

1. Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)