ሰውነት

ሰውነት • (säwnät) m

1. body; physique

   The physical structure of a human being.

2. constitution; makeup

   The structural or organizational composition of an entity, often metaphorical.

• IPA: [säw.nɛt]

From Ge'ez ሰው (säw) (“person”) + ነት (nät) (nominalizing suffix).

• ሰውነቱ ጤናማ ነው።

  säwnätu ṭenama näw.

  His body is healthy.

• የመንግሥቱ ሰውነት ተለዋዋጭ ነው።

  ye-mängəstu säwnät tälawawačč näw.

  The constitution of the government is dynamic.

• አካል (ʾäkal) (ʾäkal) – body part, organ
• ሥጋ (śəga) (šəga) – flesh, corporeal substance

• ሰው (säw) (säw) – person
• አካላት (ʾäkalat) (ʾäkalat) – body parts

• anatomy
• physiology
• governance

• High frequency in medical and political texts.
• Less frequent in poetic or literary registers.
• Often used metaphorically in institutional contexts.

• ሰውነት on Amharic Wikipedia

• Amharic-English parallel corpus (2023), tagged for idiomatic usage.
• BNC2014 frequency mapping for “body”, “constitution”, and “form”.