farado

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faˈrado/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ado
  • Hyphenation: fa‧ra‧do

Etymology 1

fari +‎ -ado

Noun

farado (uncountable, accusative faradon)

  1. action, activity, doing something
  2. making, production

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English farad.

Noun

farado (accusative singular faradon, plural faradoj, accusative plural faradojn)

  1. farad (derived unit of electrical capacitance)

Sidamo

Etymology

Either borrowed from or otherwise related to Arabic فَرَس (faras), Amharic ፈረስ (färäs). Compare Oromo farda and Hadiyya farado.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faˈɾado/
  • Hyphenation: fa‧ra‧do

Noun

farado m (singulative farashsho m or f)

  1. (collective) horses (Equus caballus)

Declension

Declension of farado (masculine)
unmodified modified
predicative farado
nominative faradu faradi
genitive faradu*) faradi*)
dative faradoho faradira
accusative farado*)
ablative faradunni faradinni

*) Stressed on the final vowel.

References

  • Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 346
  • Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007), “farado”, in Sidaama-Amharic-English dictionary, Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department