ጥልቀት

Amharic

Etymology

Probably cognate with Tigrinya ዑምቆት (ʿumḳot, depth), Ge'ez ዕመቅ (ʿəmäḳ, depth), Arabic عمق (depth), Hebrew עומק (depth).

Noun

ጥልቀት • (ṭəlḳät?

  1. depth, profundity

References

  • Leslau, Wolf (1976, 1993) Concise Amharic Dictionary: Amharic-English: English-Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 224a

Ge'ez

Noun

ጥልቀት • (ṭəlḳät)

  1. contamination, pollution, impurity, blemish

References