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ገና

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Amharic

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Etymology 1

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Adverb

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ገና (gäna)

  1. yet not, still not

Etymology 2

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From Ancient Greek γέννα (génna).

Noun

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ገና (gänna)

  1. Christmas

References

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  • d’Abbadie, Antoine (1881) “ገና”, in Dictionnaire de la langue amariñña (Actes de la Societé Philologique; 10[1]) (in French), Paris: F. Vieweg, column 857
  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 1999b–2000a

Tigre

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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ገና (gänna)

  1. Christmas, nativity

Etymology 2

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Noun

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ገና (gänna)

  1. Alternative form of ጀነት (ǧännät, Paradise)

Etymology 3

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Noun

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ገና (gäna)

  1. Alternative form of ገኖ (gäno, fell)

References

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  • Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ገና”, 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 586b

Tigrinya

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Alternative forms

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Adverb

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ገና (gäna)

  1. yet not, still not