ዘር
Amharic
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *zarʕ- (“seed”). Cognate with Arabic زَرْع (zarʕ), Biblical Hebrew זֶרַע (zɛ́raʕ), Ge'ez ዘርእ (zärʾ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈzər/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: ዘር
Noun
ዘር • (zär) m
Declension
| masculine | |
|---|---|
| indefinite | ዘር (zär) |
| definite subject | ዘሩ (zäru) |
| definite object | ዘሩን (zärun) |
| general object | ዘርን (zärən) |
| singular | plural | formal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| first person | ዘሬ (zäre) | ዘራችን (zäraččən) | — | |
| second person | m | ዘርህ (zärəh) | ዘራችሁ (zäraččəhu) | ዘርዎ (zärwo) |
| f | ዘርሽ (zärəš) | |||
| third person | m | ዘሩ (zäru) | ዘራቸው (zäraččäw) | |
| f | ዘሯ (zärʷa) | |||
References
- Kane, Thomas Leiper (1990), “ዘር”, in Amharic-English Dictionary (in Amharic and English), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN