ቀብድ

Amharic

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَبْض (qabḍ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʼəbd/
  • Hyphenation: ቀብድ

Noun

ቀብድ • (ḳäbdm

  1. deposit, retainer

Declension

Definiteness forms of ቀብድ
masculine
indefinite ቀብድ (ḳäbd)
definite subject ቀብዱ (ḳäbdu)
definite object ቀብዱን (ḳäbdun)
general object ቀብድን (ḳäbdən)
Possessive forms of ቀብድ (ḳäbd)
singular plural formal
first person ቀብዴ (ḳäbde) ቀብዳችን (ḳäbdaččən)
second person m ቀብድህ (ḳäbdəh) ቀብዳችሁ (ḳäbdaččəhu) ቀብድዎ (ḳäbdwo)
f ቀብድሽ (ḳäbdəš)
third person m ቀብዱ (ḳäbdu) ቀብዳቸው (ḳäbdaččäw)
f ቀብዷ (ḳäbdʷa)

References

  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ቀብድ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 772