ابه

See also: آبه, اته, آٹھ, and أته

Khalaj

Noun

اَبه (əbə) (definite accusative اَبه‌ݧ, plural اَبه‌لَر)

  1. Arabic spelling of əbə (mother, grandmother)

Declension

Declension of ابه
singular plural
nominative ابه ابه‌لَر
genitive ابه‌ݧ ابه‌لَریݧ
dative ابه‌که ابه‌لَرکه
definite accusative ابه‌ݧ ابه‌لَری
locative ابه‌چه ابه‌لَرچه
ablative ابه‌ده ابه‌لَرده
instrumental ابه‌له ابه‌لَرله
equative ابه‌وارا ابه‌لَروارا

Malay

Noun

ابه (plural ابه-ابه or ابه٢)

  1. Jawi spelling of abah.‎

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *apa (mother, elder sister, aunt).[1]

According to Starostin, front row variants (e.g. Kazakh ебей (ebei), Dolgan and Yakut эбэ (ebe)) are recent and may have a Mongolic origin.[2]

Noun

ابه • (ebe)

  1. midwife

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: ebe

Further reading

References

  1. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ebe”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*apa”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill