ሕዝብ
Amharic
Alternative forms
- ህዝብ (həzb)
Etymology
Cognate with Ge'ez ሕዝብ (ḥəzb) and Arabic حِزْب (ḥizb).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɨzb/
- Hyphenation: ሕዝብ
Noun
ሕዝብ • (ḥəzb) m (plural ሕዝቦች (ḥəzbočč) or አሕዛብ (ʾaḥzab) or አሕዛቦች (ʾaḥzabočč) or አሕዛቢ (ʾaḥzabi) or አዛቢ (ʾazzabi))
Declension
| masculine | |
|---|---|
| indefinite | ሕዝብ (ḥəzb) |
| definite subject | ሕዝቡ (ḥəzbu) |
| definite object | ሕዝቡን (ḥəzbun) |
| general object | ሕዝብን (ḥəzbən) |
| singular | plural | formal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| first person | ሕዝቤ (ḥəzbe) | ሕዝባችን (ḥəzbaččən) | — | |
| second person | m | ሕዝብህ (ḥəzbəh) | ሕዝባችሁ (ḥəzbaččəhu) | ሕዝብዎ (ḥəzbwo) |
| f | ሕዝብሽ (ḥəzbəš) | |||
| third person | m | ሕዝቡ (ḥəzbu) | ሕዝባቸው (ḥəzbaččäw) | |
| f | ሕዝቧ (ḥəzbʷa) | |||
References
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ሕዝብ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 24
Ge'ez
Etymology
Related to Arabic ح ز ب (ḥ z b).
Noun
ሕዝብ • (ḥəzb) m or f (plural ሕዘብ or አሕዛብ)
Related terms
- ሐዘበ (ḥäzäbä)
- ሕዝበት (ḥəzbät)
- ሕዝባዊ (ḥəzbawi)
- ሕዝብና (ḥəzbəna)
- ተሐዘበ (täḥäzäbä)
- ተሐዝበ (täḥäzbä)
- ትሕዝብት (təḥzəbt)
- አሕዘበ (ʾäḥzäbä)
- አስተሐዘበ (ʾästäḥäzäbä)
References
- Dillmann, August (1865) “ሕዝብ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel