ዕጣን

Amharic

Alternative forms

እጣን (ʾəṭan), ጣን (ṭan)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɨtʼan/

Noun

ዕጣን • (ʿəṭan)

incense

Derived terms

አጠነ (ʾäṭṭänä, “to incense, to expose to thus, to fumigate”)

Ge'ez

Etymology

A cross-over of an original root ʿ-ṭ-r used in Modern South Arabian and in Central Semitic, عِطْر (ʕiṭr, “perfume”), from a basic meaning of “smoke” with some other root, notable options are the things mentioned under نَتَنَ (natana, “to stink”) and وَتِين (watīn, “aorta”), as well as ተነ (tännä, “to smoke”), ተን (tänn, “vapour, smoke”) which is considered a borrowing from a Classical Syriac ܬܢܢܐ (tennānā, “smoke, fume”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʕɨtʼaːn/

Noun

ዕጣን • (ʿəṭan) m (plural ዕጣናት (ʿəṭanat))

incense, odorament

Derived terms

ዐጠነ (ʿäṭänä, “to burn or fume with incense for”)
ተዐጥነ (täʿäṭnä, “to be burnt incense for”)
ዐጣኒ (ʿäṭani, “someone who burns incense, thurifer”)
ዕጡን (ʿəṭun, “incensed”)
ዕጥነት (ʿəṭnät, “incense offering, a fumigation”)
ምዕጣን (məʿṭan, “place where one incenses”)
ማዕጣንት (maʿəṭant), ማዕጣን (maʿəṭan, “censer, thurible”)

References

Dillmann, August (1865) “ዕጣን”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 1018
Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 76b

Tigre

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʕɨtʼaːn/

Noun

ዕጣን • (ʿəṭan)

incense
Synonym: ልባን (ləban)

Derived terms

ዐጢን (ʿäṭin, verbal noun)
ዐጥነ (ʿäṭnä, “to incense, to expose to thus, to fumigate”)
ተዐጠነ (täʿäṭṭänä, “to be burnt incense for, to be fumigate”)
መዐጠኒ (mäʿäṭäni, “smoking-vat”)
ምዕጥን (məʿṭən, “drenching stop, river-bed”)
ምዕጣን (məʿṭan, “place by the livestock where milk-vats are exposed to smoke”)

References

Munzinger, Werner (1865) “ዕጣን”, in Vocabulaire de la langue tigré (in French), Leipzig: T.O. Weigel^[1]^[2], page 57
Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ዕጣን”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)‎^[3], Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 489

Tigrinya

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʕɨtʼan/

Noun

ዕጣን • (ʿəṭan)

incense

Derived terms

ዐጠነ (ʿäṭänä, “to incense, to expose to thus, to fumigate”)