ባል
Amharic
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *baʕl-. Cognates include Ge'ez በዓል (bäʿal) and Tigrinya በዓል (bäʿal).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbal/
- Hyphenation: ባል
Noun
ባል • (bal) m
Declension
| masculine | |
|---|---|
| indefinite | ባል (bal) |
| definite subject | ባሉ (balu) |
| definite object | ባሉን (balun) |
| general object | ባልን (balən) |
| singular | plural | formal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| first person | ባሌ (bale) | ባላችን (balaččən) | — | |
| second person | m | ባልህ (baləh) | ባላችሁ (balaččəhu) | ባልዎ (balwo) |
| f | ባልሽ (baləš) | |||
| third person | m | ባሉ (balu) | ባላቸው (balaččäw) | |
| f | ባሏ (balʷa) | |||
Coordinate terms
- (husband): ሚስት (mist, “wife”)
References
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ባል”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN