ንጉሥ

Amharic

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ge'ez ንጉሥ (nəguś). Akin to Tigrinya ንጉስ (nəgus).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnɨɡus/
  • Hyphenation: ን‧ጉሥ

Noun

ንጉሥ • (nəguśm (plural ንጉሦች (nəguśočč) or ነገሥት (nägäst) or ነገሥታት (nägästat))

  1. king, negus
  2. (chess) king

Declension

Definiteness forms of ንጉሥ
masculine
indefinite ንጉሥ (nəguś)
definite subject ንጉሡ (nəguśu)
definite object ንጉሡን (nəguśun)
general object ንጉሥን (nəguśən)
Possessive forms of ንጉሥ (nəguś)
singular plural formal
first person ንጉሤ (nəguśe) ንጉሣችን (nəguśaččən)
second person m ንጉሥህ (nəguśəh) ንጉሣችሁ (nəguśaččəhu) ንጉሥዎ (nəguśwo)
f ንጉሥሽ (nəguśəš)
third person m ንጉሡ (nəguśu) ንጉሣቸው (nəguśaččäw)
f ንጉሧ (nəguśʷa)

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Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: negus
  • French: négus
  • German: Negus
  • Italian: negus
  • Polish: negus
  • Sidamo: nugusa

References

  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ንጉሥ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
  • Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 7

Ge'ez

Etymology

From the verb ነግሠ (nägśä, rule). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

ንጉሥ • (nəguś) (plural ነገሥት (nägäśt) or ነገሥታት (nägäśtat))

  1. king
  2. duke, prince, prefect, satrap, tyrant, emperor

Declension

Descendants

References

Tigrinya

Noun

ንጉሥ • (nəguś)

  1. Ethiopia spelling of ንጉስ (nəgus)