ሕልም

Amharic

Root
ሐ-ለ-መ (ḥä-lä-mä)

Etymology

Cognates include Ge'ez ሕልም (ḥəlm), Arabic حُلْم (ḥulm), Aramaic חֶלְמָא (ḥelmā), Classical Syriac ܚܠܡܐ (ḥelmā) and Hebrew חֲלוֹם (khalóm).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhɨlm/
Hyphenation: ሕልም

Noun

ሕልም • (ḥəlm) m

dream

Declension

Definiteness forms of *ሕልም*
	masculine
indefinite	ሕልም (ḥəlm)
definite subject	ሕልሙ (ḥəlmu)
definite object	ሕልሙን (ḥəlmun)
general object	ሕልምን (ḥəlmən)

Possessive forms of *ሕልም* (ḥəlm)
		singular	plural	formal
first person		ሕልሜ (ḥəlme)	ሕልማችን (ḥəlmaččən)	—
second person	m	ሕልምህ (ḥəlməh)	ሕልማችሁ (ḥəlmaččəhu)	ሕልምዎ (ḥəlmwo)
second person	f	ሕልምሽ (ḥəlməš)	ሕልማችሁ (ḥəlmaččəhu)	ሕልምዎ (ḥəlmwo)
third person	m	ሕልሙ (ḥəlmu)	ሕልማቸው (ḥəlmaččäw)
third person	f	ሕልሟ (ḥəlmʷa)	ሕልማቸው (ḥəlmaččäw)

References

Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ሕልም”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 4