ጭንቅላት

Amharic

Etymology

Borrowed from a Cushitic language.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃʼɨnˈkʼɨlːat/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ጭን‧ቅ‧ላት

Noun

ጭንቅላት • (č̣ənḳəllat) m

  1. skull
  2. (by extension) head

Declension

Definiteness forms of ጭንቅላት
masculine
indefinite ጭንቅላት (č̣ənḳəllat)
definite subject ጭንቅላቱ (č̣ənḳəllatu)
definite object ጭንቅላቱን (č̣ənḳəllatun)
general object ጭንቅላትን (č̣ənḳəllatən)
Possessive forms of ጭንቅላት (č̣ənḳəllat)
singular plural formal
first person ጭንቅላቴ (č̣ənḳəllate) ጭንቅላታችን (č̣ənḳəllataččən) —
second person m ጭንቅላትህ (č̣ənḳəllatəh) ጭንቅላታችሁ (č̣ənḳəllataččəhu) ጭንቅላትዎ (č̣ənḳəllatwo)
f ጭንቅላትሽ (č̣ənḳəllatəš)
third person m ጭንቅላቱ (č̣ənḳəllatu) ጭንቅላታቸው (č̣ənḳəllataččäw)
f ጭንቅላቷ (č̣ənḳəllatʷa)
  • ጭንቅሎ (č̣ənḳəllo, “big-headed”)

References

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