ابه
Khalaj
Noun
اَبه (əbə) (definite accusative اَبهݧ, plural اَبهلَر)
- Arabic spelling of əbə (“mother, grandmother”)
Declension
| 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)
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)
Derived terms
- ابه كومجی (ebe gümeci, “mallow”)
Related terms
- ابلا (abla)
Descendants
- Turkish: ebe
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ابه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 47
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ابه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 45
References
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ebe”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ 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