ራስ
Amharic
Alternative forms
- (prothetic) እራስ (ʾəras)
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *raʔš-. Cognates include Ge'ez ርእስ (rəʾs) and Arabic رَأْس (raʔs).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɾas/
- Hyphenation: ራ‧ስ
Noun
ራስ • (ras) m
- head
- top, summit
- (obsolete) ras (leader ranking directly below a king)
- When possessed, used to form reflexive pronouns; -self, -selves
- እሱ ራሱ. ― ʾəssu rasu ― He himself. (literally, “He his head.”)
Declension
| masculine | |
|---|---|
| indefinite | ራስ (ras) |
| definite subject | ራሱ (rasu) |
| definite object | ራሱን (rasun) |
| general object | ራስን (rasən) |
| singular | plural | formal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| first person | ራሴ (rase) | ራሳችን (rasaččən) | — | |
| second person | m | ራስህ (rasəh) | ራሳችሁ (rasaččəhu) | ራስዎ (raswo) |
| f | ራስሽ (rasəš) | |||
| third person | m | ራሱ (rasu) | ራሳቸው (rasaččäw) | |
| f | ራሷ (rasʷa) | |||
Descendants
- → English: ras
References
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ራስ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
- Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 20