ዓይን
Amharic
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *ʿayn-. Cognates include Arabic عَيْن (ʕayn).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈ(ʔ)ajn/
- Hyphenation: ዓይን
Noun
ዓይን • (ʿayn) m
- eye (organ)
- eye (of a needle)
- end (of a thread)
- knot (in a piece of wood)
- Name of the letter ዐ in the Amharic alphabet.
- (figurative) sight, eyesight
Declension
| masculine | |
|---|---|
| indefinite | ዓይን (ʿayn) |
| definite subject | ዓይኑ (ʿaynu) |
| definite object | ዓይኑን (ʿaynun) |
| general object | ዓይንን (ʿaynən) |
| singular | plural | formal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| first person | ዓይኔ (ʿayne) | ዓይናችን (ʿaynaččən) | — | |
| second person | m | ዓይንህ (ʿaynəh) | ዓይናችሁ (ʿaynaččəhu) | ዓይንዎ (ʿaynwo) |
| f | ዓይንሽ (ʿaynəš) | |||
| third person | m | ዓይኑ (ʿaynu) | ዓይናቸው (ʿaynaččäw) | |
| f | ዓይኗ (ʿaynʷa) | |||
Synonyms
- (eye of a needle): ጆሮ (ǧoro)
References
- Kane, Thomas Leiper (1990), “ዓይን”, in Amharic-English Dictionary (in Amharic and English), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 1289