ሰምዐ

Cognate with Classical Syriac ܫܡܰܥ, Hebrew שָׁמַע, Arabic سَمِعَ (samiʕa), Amharic ሰማ (säma).

ሰምዐ • (sämʿä)

1. to hear
2. to have the sense of hearing
3. to perceive with the ears, apprehend comprehend, discover, learn
4. to listen to, pay attention to, lend one's ears to
5. to hearken, hear the complaint, counsel, prayer of someone
6. to obey, comply with
7. to approve, assent, accept
8. to bear witness

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