ከተማ

Noun

 * 1) military camp, garrison, cantonment
 * 2) city, town

Etymology
Compare, , and the suspected Sanskrit borrowings 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, all meaning a fortification. Though Ludolf and Dillmann consider the Geʿez in this meaning a vulgar development or Amharism of “extremity, fine; tip, apex”, the opposite may be the case, and we may deal with a loanword also into Ethiopian from the time when Sanskrit ruled the Indian ocean.

Noun

 * 1) extremity, fine, end
 * 2) tip, apex, summit, cusp
 * 3) military camp, garrison, cantonment

Noun

 * 1) city, town