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This app is built with exist-db, and uses Lucene as the standard search engine. This comes with several options available. A full list is here

Below very few examples.

sample result
* *custodir* add wildcards to unlimit your string search
? custodir? Will find any match for the position with the question mark.
~ ምሕረትከ~ Will make a fuzzy search. you can decide also how much fuzzy, by saying for example ምሕረትከ~0.9 which will match only 90% similar terms.
"" "ምሕረትከ፡ ይትኖለወኒ፡" Will find the exact string contained between quotes.
() (verbo OR notionem) AND ይትኖለወኒ Will find one of the two between brackets and the other string.

Input

If you want to transcribe some fidal into latin or update your transcription, you can have a go with our transcription tools.

If you are using the keyboard provided, please note that there are four layers, the normal one and those activated by Shift, Alt, Alt+Shift.

Normal and Shift contain mainly Fidal. Alt and Alt-Shift diacritics.

To enter letters in Fidal and the diacritics with this keyboard, which is independent of your local input selection, you can use two methods.

Orthographic variants of the Ethiopic language are searched as a standard if not otherwise specified. The following are the options considered by the search engine.

  • 's','s', 'ḍ'
  • 'e','ǝ','ə','ē'
  • 'w','ʷ'
  • 'ʾ', 'ʿ'
  • '`', 'ʾ', 'ʿ' (note that you can use the tick if you are not sure about the two, but none will be inferred for you)
  • 'ሀ', 'ሐ', 'ኀ', 'ሃ', 'ሓ', 'ኃ'
  • 'ሀ', 'ሐ', 'ኀ'
  • 'ሁ', 'ሑ', 'ኁ'
  • 'ሂ', 'ሒ', 'ኂ'
  • 'ሄ', 'ሔ', 'ኄ'
  • 'ህ', 'ሕ', 'ኅ'
  • 'ሆ', 'ሖ', 'ኆ'
  • 'ሠ','ሰ'
  • 'ሡ','ሱ'
  • 'ሢ','ሲ'
  • 'ሣ','ሳ'
  • 'ሥ','ስ'
  • 'ሦ','ሶ'
  • 'ሤ','ሴ'
  • 'ጸ', 'ፀ'
  • 'ጹ', 'ፁ'
  • 'ጺ', 'ፂ'
  • 'ጻ', 'ፃ'
  • 'ጼ', 'ፄ'
  • 'ጽ', 'ፅ'
  • 'ጾ', 'ፆ'
  • 'አ', 'ዐ', 'ኣ', 'ዓ'
  • 'ኡ', 'ዑ'
  • 'ኢ', 'ዒ'
  • 'ኤ', 'ዔ'
  • 'እ', 'ዕ'
  • 'ኦ', 'ዖ'

Some examples

  • If you search Taammera, you will not find Taʾammǝra or Taʿammera but only Taammera. Try Ta`ammera instead or use the keyboard provided to enter aleph and ayn.
  • If you are searching for Yāʿǝqob, you will not have a lot of luck searching Yaqob, unless some kind cataloguer has actually added it into the data as simplified spelling form. Try instead entering Yaqob~0.5 which is a fuzzy search, this will return also Yāʿǝqob. Also Ya`eqob is fine for example.

Keys Combinations

With this method you use keys combinations to trigger specific characters. Click here for a list of the available combos. This can be expanded, do not hesitate to ask (click here to post a new issue).

Hold and choose

If you hold a key optional values will appear in a list. You can click on the desiderd value or use arrows and enter to select it. The options are the same as those activated by combinations.

With this method you do not have to remember or lookup combos, but it does take many more clicks...

Hittites
Hivites
Holy Spirit
Hosanna
I am going to the copyists carrying this parchment so that they may copy on it the miracles of Our Lady Mary
I and he
I, for my part
I, your servant Ḫadära Ǝgǝziʾǝ, ḫankari, with many sins and with mistakes without measure, have confided in your prayer
If an official or a layman — one with or without authority — moves to another region without a written permission, let him be barred
If any one of you goes to the worship of other (gods), to a mart, däsk, fäṣänt, or to a gʷǝdale, dino, mäqawäzäy, or to astärabi {should be ‘astäʾarabi’}, or to magicians (ṭänqwalǝyan) — who choose a day and hours (for an act), who are star-gazers — or to charmers (mäśärrǝyan) or to idolaters who practice magic and divination
If there is a shameless person, or one who casts spells, or an exorcist
If there is one “who tattoos his arms and legs with a needle (and) makes (them appear) thin, dark or red, and inscribes on himself a legend…”
If there was an avanger of the blood and he wanted to kill this man (culprit), he redeemed him from him with humble word and paid the proper redemption
If you want to know who gave me the habit, it is Abba so and so
In that day, the Tabot called in the name of Tädbabä Maryam came out from the tabernacle
In that time a great famine occured in the land of Ǝlḫǝbus
In that year, God glorious and the most high sent his mercy into the whole land of ʾAgʿazi and restored peace to the land by the hand of his envoy, the subject of this fine story
In the second month of the months of Ethiopia and Egypt and in the seventh month of the Hebrew months, King Gälawdewos arrived in the land of Wäǧ after many journeys
In the second year of the reign of Mar Gälawdewos the Church received the grace of victory from God glorious and the most high and tribute was begun which is written in the account of farmers