ሰማዒ

ሰማዒ • (sämaʿi) (plural ሰማዕያን (sämaʿyan) or ሰማዕታት (sämaʿtat) or ሰማዕት (sämaʿt))

1. listener, hearer, audience
2. witness
   • 1853-1855, August Dillmann, editor, Veteris Testamenti Aethiopici‎^[1], Leipzig, Deuteronomy 17:6:

     በክልኤቱ ፡ ሰማዕት ፡ ወሠለስቱ ፡ ሰማዕት ፡ ይመውቱ ፡ እለ ፡ ይመውቱ ፡ ወኢይመውቱ ፡ በአሐዱ ፡ ስምዕ ።

     bäkləʾetu sämaʿt wäśälästu sämaʿt yəmäwtu ʾəlä yəmäwtu wäʾiymäwtu bäʾäḥädu səmʿ .

     At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

3. martyr

• Dillmann, August (1865), “ሰማዒ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel