Early borrowing fromAramaic𐡔𐡒(šq/śaqq/), which is inJewish Babylonian Aramaicסַקָּא(saqqā),Classical Syriacܣܩܐ(saqqā).
ሠቅ• (śäḳḳ) m (pluralሠቃት(śäḳḳat),andአሥቃቅ(ʾäśḳaḳ),andአሥቃቃት(ʾäśḳaḳat))
- sackcloth
- acoarsefabric such as to makesacks
- avestment of such afabric
- asack
- Dillmann, August (1865), “ሠቅ”, inLexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel,column247
- Leslau, Wolf (1987),Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz,→ISBN,reprinted 1991, 1997 and 2006,page532a
- Nöldeke, Theodor (1910),Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft[1] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner,→DOI,pages39–40
