ጨረቃ

Amharic

Etymology

Borrowed from a Cushitic language.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃʼəɾəkʼa/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ጨ‧ረ‧ቃ

Noun

ጨረቃ • (č̣äräḳam

  1. moon

Declension

Definiteness forms of ጨረቃ
masculine
indefinite ጨረቃ (č̣äräḳa)
definite subject ጨረቃው (č̣äräḳaw)
definite object ጨረቃውን (č̣äräḳawən)
general object ጨረቃን (č̣äräḳan)
Possessive forms of ጨረቃ (č̣äräḳa)
singular plural formal
first person ጨረቃዬ (č̣äräḳaye) ጨረቃችን (č̣äräḳaččən)
second person m ጨረቃህ (č̣äräḳah) ጨረቃችሁ (č̣äräḳaččəhu) ጨረቃዎ (č̣äräḳawo)
f ጨረቃሽ (č̣äräḳaš)
third person m ጨረቃው (č̣äräḳaw) ጨረቃቸው (č̣äräḳaččäw)
f ጨረቃዋ (č̣äräḳawa)

References

  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ጨረቃ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN