makiina

Afar

Etymology

Borrowed from a Yemeni Arabic term equivalent to Standard Arabic مَاكِينَة (mākīna).

The sense "automobile" is a semantic loan from another language. Compare Amharic መኪና (mäkina) and Italian macchina.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /makiːˈna/ [mʌkiːˈnʌ]
  • Hyphenation: ma‧kii‧na

Noun

makiiná f (plural makáayin m)

  1. machine
  2. (Northern Afar) car, automobile

Declension

Declension of makiiná
absolutive makiiná
predicative makiiná
subjective makiiná
genitive makiiná
Postpositioned forms
l-case makiinál
k-case makiinák
t-case makiinát
h-case makiináh

Synonyms

References

  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “makiina”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
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