ሕጊ

Tigrinya

Root
ሐ-ገ-ገ (ḥä-gä-gä)
1 term

Etymology

Compare Ge'ez ሕግ (ḥəgg), Hebrew חוק (khók) and Arabic حَقّ (ḥaqq, “right”).

Noun

ሕጊ • (ḥəggi) ? (plural ሕግታት (ḥəggətat) or ሕጊታት (ḥəggitat) or ሕግጋት (ḥəggat))

  1. law, rule

Derived terms

nouns
  • ሕገ መንግስቲ (ḥəggä mängəsti, “constitution”)
  • ሕጋዊ (ḥəggawi, “legal”)
  • ክኢላ ሕጊ (kəʾila ḥəggi, “lawyer”)

References

  • Yaroslav Gutgarts, Filip Busau (2022), Tigrinisch-Deutsch-Englisches Wörterbuch, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 55
  • Leslau, Wolf (1987), “ḥgg, ḥaggaga”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, reprinted 1991, 1997 and 2006, page 227b
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