ጸሐፈ

Unknown. Cognate to Amharic ጻፈ (ṣafä), Tigrinya ጸሓፈ (ṣäḥafä), Sabaean 𐩮𐩢𐩰 (ṣḥf), Qatabanian 𐩮𐩢𐩰 (ṣḥf). Not used in Minaean, but possibly related to Arabic صَخَفَ (ṣaḵafa, “to dig the ground”).

ጸሐፈ • (ṣäḥäfä) (prefix conjugation ይጽሐፍ (yəṣḥäf))

1. to write

• Dillmann, August (1865), “ጸሐፈ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 1266–1267
• Leslau, Wolf (1987), Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, reprinted 1991, 1997 and 2006, pages 552a–b