baaxo

Afar

Etymology

Cognates include Somali béer and Saho baarho.

Perhaps further related to Arabic بَرّ (barr), Hebrew בַּר (bar).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baːˈɖo/ [baːˈɽɔ]
  • Hyphenation: baa‧xo

Noun

baaxó f (plural baaxooxá f)

  1. earth
  2. land, country
    • 2006, “Ruut 1:1 [Ruth 1:1]”, in Nabuwwa kee malikwa [Prophets and kings]‎[1]:
      Makaabon Israayil baaxol dardaarak ten saaku, Israayil baaxol qulul rade.
      When the judges were ruling in the land of Israel, a famine fell upon the land of Israel.

Declension

        Declension of baaxó      
absolutive baaxó
predicative baaxó
subjective baaxó
genitive baaxó
  Postpositioned forms
l-case baaxól
k-case baaxók
t-case baaxót
h-case baaxóh

Derived terms

References

  • Mario Capomazza (1907), “barò”, in La lingua degli Afar: Vocabulario Italiano-Dankalo e Dankalo-Italiano [The language of the Afar: Italian-Dankal and Dankal-Italian dictionary], Macerata: Unione Tipografica, page 115
  • E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “baaxo”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
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