አዲስ

Amharic

Root
አ-ደ-ሰ
(ʾä-dä-sä)

Alternative forms

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Semitic *ḥdṯ-. Compare Arabic حَدِيث (ḥadīṯ) and Hebrew חדש (ḥadaš).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈ(ʔ)adːis/
  • Hyphenation: አ‧ዲስ
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Adjective

አዲስ • (ʾaddis) (plural አዳዲስ (ʾadaddis))

  1. new

Declension

Definiteness forms of አዲስ
masculine feminine
indefinite አዲስ (ʾäddis)
definite subject አዲሱ (ʾäddisu) አዲሷ (ʾäddisʷa)
አዲሲቱ (ʾäddisitu)
አዲሲቷ (ʾäddisitʷa)
definite object አዲሱን (ʾäddisun) አዲሷን (ʾäddisʷan)
አዲሲቱን (ʾäddisitun)
አዲሲቷን (ʾäddisitʷan)
general object አዲስን (ʾäddisən)

References

  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 1306b