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qene

qene noun: an Ethiopian literary genre that employs double entendres.

Noun

qene (plural qenes)

  1. An Ethiopian literary genre that employs double entendres.
    • After undergoing extensive training on the methods of memorization and meditation, qene becomes a crucial aspect of the students' academic journey because qene gives them a chance to construe their own perception of reality using religious conviction as a foundation and individual poetic skill as a...2012, Mohammed Girma, Understanding Religion and Social Change in Ethiopia: Toward a Hermeneutic of Covenant, Springer, →ISBN
    • This was our qene, our back-and-forth talk. […] Abeselome's qene has always been good; he is sixteen, has been growing up and learning things two years longer than me. He goes to the school and gathers new words, a new story-full every week. Then he comes home and kicks the words to me. I stop them...2015, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Blue Talk and Love, Riverdale Avenue Books LLC, →ISBN

Examples of qene in a sentence

  • This was our qene, our back-and-forth talk. […] Abeselome's qene has always been good; he is sixteen, has been growing up and learning things two years longer than me.2015, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Blue Talk and Love, Riverdale Avenue Books LLC, →ISBN:
  • These studies in qene demand great concentration as well as a contemplative spirit.2023, Christine Chaillot, The Traditional Teaching of the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahedo Church: Faith and Spirituality, LIT Verlag Münster...

Forms of qene

pluralqenes

Origin of qene

Borrowed from Ge'ez ቅኔ (ḳəne).

Questions about qene

What does qene mean?
Qene means an Ethiopian literary genre that employs double entendres.
How do you use qene in a sentence?
This was our qene, our back-and-forth talk. […] Abeselome's qene has always been good; he is sixteen, has been growing up and learning things two years longer than me.
What part of speech is qene?
Qene is a noun.
What is the plural of qene?
The plural of qene is qenes.

Words near qene in the dictionary

  1. qeleshet
  2. Qelt
  3. qeltite
  4. Qemant
  5. Qena
  6. qene
  7. qenet
  8. qenets
  9. Qenite
  10. Qenites
  11. qepik

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