ቤት
Amharic
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *bayt-. Cognates include Ge'ez ቤት (bet) and Tigrinya ቤት (bet).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbet/
- Hyphenation: ቤት
Noun
ቤት • (bet) m
- house
- room
- family
- generation
- stall, stable
- verse (of poetry)
- box, sheath
- (grammar) person
- (mathematics) period
Declension
| masculine | |
|---|---|
| indefinite | ቤት (bet) |
| definite subject | ቤቱ (betu) |
| definite object | ቤቱን (betun) |
| general object | ቤትን (betən) |
| singular | plural | formal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| first person | ቤቴ (bete) | ቤታችን (betaččən) | — | |
| second person | m | ቤትህ (betəh) | ቤታችሁ (betaččəhu) | ቤትዎ (betwo) |
| f | ቤትሽ (betəš) | |||
| third person | m | ቤቱ (betu) | ቤታቸው (betaččäw) | |
| f | ቤቷ (betʷa) | |||
Derived terms
References
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ቤት”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
- Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 3
Ge'ez
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *bayt-.
Noun
ቤት • (bet) (plural አብያት)
Related terms
- ቤተ (betä)
- አቤተ (ʾäbetä)
- ምብያት (məbyat)
- አብያታዊ (ʾäbyatawi)
References
- Dillmann, August (1865) “ቤት”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel
Tigrinya
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *bayt-.
Noun
ቤት • (bet)