farado
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /faˈrado/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ado
- Hyphenation: fa‧ra‧do
Etymology 1
Noun
farado (uncountable, accusative faradon)
- action, activity, doing something
- making, production
Etymology 2
Noun
farado (accusative singular faradon, plural faradoj, accusative plural faradojn)
- 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)
- (collective) horses (Equus caballus)
Declension
| 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