• Thumbnail for Geʽez
    ancient Geʽez script. In one study, Tigre was found to have a 71% lexical similarity to Ge'ez while Tigrinya had a 68% lexical similarity to Geʽez followed...
    65 KB (5,655 words) - 13:16, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Geʽez script
    Geʽez (Ge'ez: ግዕዝ, romanized: Gəʽəz, IPA: [ˈɡɨʕɨz] ) is a script used as an abugida (alphasyllabary) for several Afro-Asiatic and Nilo-Saharan languages...
    48 KB (2,842 words) - 07:31, 19 May 2024
  • The Ethiopian calendar (Amharic: ዓውደ ወር; Ge'ez: ዓዉደ ወርሕ; Tigrinya: ዓዉደ ኣዋርሕ), or Ge'ez calendar (Ge'ez: ዓዉደ ወርሕ; Tigrinya: ዓዉደ ኣዋርሕ; Amharic: የኢትዮጲያ ዘመን...
    13 KB (1,367 words) - 19:43, 10 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bible translations into Geʽez
    Bible translations into Geʽez, an ancient South Semitic language of the Ethiopian branch, date back to the 6th century at least, making them one of the...
    8 KB (770 words) - 13:11, 29 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ge'ez Braille
    Ge'ez Braille is the braille alphabet for all Ethiopic languages. Letter values are mostly in line with international usage. Ge'ez Braille is a consonant–vowel...
    6 KB (279 words) - 20:41, 7 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Tigrinya language
    Tigrinya language (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
    strong influence of Geʽez on Tigrinya literature, especially with terms relating to Christian life, Biblical names, and so on. Ge'ez, because of its status...
    33 KB (2,718 words) - 22:48, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alexandrian liturgical rites
    languages (including English) are also used. The Ge'ez Rite is native to Ethiopia and Eritrea and uses the Ge'ez language. It is used in the Ethiopian Orthodox...
    17 KB (1,981 words) - 02:54, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ethiopian aristocratic and court titles
    Ethiopian aristocratic and court titles (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
    were two categories of nobility in Ethiopia and Eritrea. The Mesafint (Ge'ez: መሳፍንት masāfint, modern mesāfint, singular መስፍን masfin, modern mesfin, "prince")...
    28 KB (3,708 words) - 16:32, 29 April 2024
  • Orthodox Tewahedo (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
    Orthodox Tewahedo Church, autocephalous since 1993. Tewahedo (Ge'ez: ተዋሕዶ täwaḥədo) is a Ge'ez word meaning "being made one" or "unified". This word refers...
    1 KB (147 words) - 14:29, 24 January 2024
  • ʾalif ا, and North Arabian 𐪑. It also appears as South Arabian 𐩱 and Ge'ez ʾälef አ. These letters are believed to have derived from an Egyptian hieroglyph...
    23 KB (2,399 words) - 02:54, 8 May 2024
  • the second-most spoken language in Eritrea. The Ge'ez language has a literary history in its own Ge'ez script going back to the first century AD. It is...
    12 KB (970 words) - 20:52, 20 April 2024
  • Tigrinya, it is believed to be the most closely related living language to Ge'ez, which is still in use as the liturgical language of the Eritrean Orthodox...
    28 KB (2,285 words) - 21:19, 9 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ethiopia
    identified as Kush, while his grandfather is known as Kam. In the 15th-century Ge'ez Book of Axum, the name is ascribed to a legendary individual called Ityopp'is...
    209 KB (20,566 words) - 20:17, 19 May 2024
  • Amharic (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
    Arabic). Amharic is written left-to-right using a system that grew out of the Geʽez script. The segmental writing system in which consonant-vowel sequences...
    77 KB (6,586 words) - 14:46, 9 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alphabet
    sister script to the Phoenician alphabet, is the script from which the Ge'ez abugida was descended. Abugidas are writing systems with characters comprising...
    64 KB (7,023 words) - 04:20, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ethiopian manuscript collections
    not all support manuscript cultures. The majority of manuscripts are in Ge'ez, the ancient liturgical language of Ethiopia. Catalogues and Online Resouces...
    36 KB (4,482 words) - 13:27, 5 May 2024
  • Habesha peoples (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
    Habesha peoples (Ge'ez: ሐበሠተ; Amharic: ሐበሻ; Tigrinya: ሓበሻ; commonly used exonym: Abyssinians) is an ethnic or pan-ethnic identifier that has been historically...
    65 KB (7,692 words) - 14:04, 10 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for T
    T
    derives from old Italic T ፐ : One of the 26 consonantal letters of Ge'ez script. The Ge'ez abugida developed under the influence of Christian scripture by...
    16 KB (1,284 words) - 17:25, 9 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Garima Gospels
    eleven illuminated canon tables in arcades, followed by the Gospel texts in Ge'ez; the Ethiopic language of the Kingdom of Axum from the 4th to the 7th centuries...
    21 KB (2,780 words) - 10:44, 20 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Judaism
    also for the Samaritan Book of Joshua). Haymanot (meaning "religion" in Ge'ez and Amharic) refers the Judaism practiced by Ethiopian Jews. This version...
    233 KB (26,041 words) - 02:25, 18 May 2024
  • Zera Yacob (philosopher) (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
    Zera Yacob (/ˈzɪərə jæˈkoʊb/; Ge'ez: ዘርዐ ያዕቆብ; 28 August 1599 – 1692) was an Ethiopian philosopher from the city of Aksum in the 17th century. His 1667...
    11 KB (1,228 words) - 23:58, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ethiopian eunuch
    Ethiopian eunuch (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
    The Ethiopian eunuch (Ge'ez: ኢትዮጵያዊው ጃንደረባ) is a figure in the New Testament of the Bible; the story of his conversion to Christianity is recounted in...
    20 KB (1,771 words) - 15:47, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bewketu Seyoum
    Bewketu Seyoum (Ge'ez: በዕውቀቱ ስዩም) is an Ethiopian writer and poet from Debre Markos of Ethiopia. He studied psychology at Addis Ababa University and published...
    3 KB (237 words) - 00:37, 5 March 2024
  • text, which was probably written in Greek, is now lost. Translations in Ge'ez, Bohairic Coptic, Sahidic Coptic and Arabic remain extant. The Sahidic translation...
    5 KB (559 words) - 23:05, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Book of Jubilees
    Book of Jubilees (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
    Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews), where it is known as the Book of Division (Ge'ez: መጽሐፈ ኩፋሌ, romanized: maṣiḥāfa kufale). Jubilees is considered one of the...
    25 KB (3,078 words) - 17:43, 2 May 2024
  • commonly just the Book of Enoch, dates to 300 BC and survives only in Ge'ez 2 Enoch dates to the 1st century AD and survives only in Old Church Slavonic...
    512 bytes (112 words) - 00:44, 17 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Semitic languages
    Semitic languages (category Ge'ez language)
    Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, and ancient South Arabian alphabets. The Geʽez script, used for writing the Semitic languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea,...
    135 KB (10,483 words) - 12:25, 1 May 2024
  • Haymanot (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
    Haymanot (Ge'ez: ሃይማኖት) is the branch of Judaism which is practiced by the Beta Israel, also known as Ethiopian Jews. In Geʽez, Tigrinya and Amharic, Haymanot...
    13 KB (1,531 words) - 13:48, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Enoch
    of Enoch (aka 1 Enoch), composed in Hebrew or Aramaic and preserved in Ge'ez, first brought to Europe by James Bruce from Ethiopia and translated into...
    24 KB (2,942 words) - 16:34, 19 May 2024
  • 4
    Hexadecimal 416 Armenian Դ Arabic, Kurdish ٤ Persian, Sindhi ۴ Shahmukhi, Urdu ۴ Ge'ez ፬ Bengali, Assamese ৪ Chinese numeral 四,亖,肆 Devanagari ४ Telugu ౪ Malayalam...
    87 KB (9,309 words) - 12:40, 15 May 2024