ነፍስ

From Proto-Semitic *napš- (“breath, spirit”). Compare, Classical Syriac ܢܦܫܐ, Hebrew נֶפֶשׁ, Akkadian 𒆒 (napašu, “to breathe”), 𒍣 (napištu, “life”),Arabic نَفْس (nafs, “a soul, a life”), Ugaritic 𐎐𐎔𐎌 (npš), Ge'ez ነፍስ (näfs).

ነፍስ • (näfs) ?

1. breath, soul, spirit

• ነፋስ (näfas)

• Isenberg, Karl Wilhelm (1841) Dictionary of the Amharic language. Amharic and English‎^[1], London: The Church Missionary Society, page 109b

From Proto-Semitic *napš- (“breath, spirit”). Compare, Classical Syriac ܢܦܫܐ, Hebrew נֶפֶשׁ, Akkadian 𒆒 (napašu, “to breathe”), 𒍣 (napištu, “life”),Arabic نَفْس (nafs, “a soul, a life”), Ugaritic 𐎐𐎔𐎌 (npš).

ነፍስ • (näfs) f (plural ነፍሳት (näfsat))

1. breath, soul, spirit

• Dillmann, August (1865) “ነፍስ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 707–708

• ነፍሲ (näfsi), ነብስ (näbs)

From Proto-Semitic *napš- (“breath, spirit”).

ነፍስ • (näfs) ?

1. soul