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Khalaj
Noun
اَبه (əbə) (definite accusative اَبهݧ, plural اَبهلَر)
- Arabic spelling of əbə (“mother, grandmother”)
Declension
Malay
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *aba-h, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *aba-h, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *aba-h, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aba, from Proto-Austronesian *aba.
Pronunciation
Noun
ابه (Rumi spelling abah, plural ابه-ابه or ابه۲, informal 1st possessive ابهکو, 2nd possessive ابهمو, 3rd possessive ابهڽ)
- father (male parent)
- Synonyms: ايه (ayah), باڤ (bapa), راما (rama)
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *apa (“mother, elder sister, aunt”).[1]
According to Starostin, front row variants (e.g. Kazakh ебей (ebei), Dolgan and Yakut эбэ (ebe)) are recent and may have a Mongolic origin.[2]
Noun
ابه • (ebe)
- midwife
Descendants
Further reading
References
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ebe”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*apa”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill