ሖመር

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Ge'ez

ሖመር

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حُمَر (ḥumar, “tamarind”).

Noun

ሖመር • (ḥomär) ? (plural አሕመር (ʾäḥmär))

  1. tamarind (fruit and tree)

Usage notes

Dictionary glosses “carob”, “cherry”, “acorn”, and “red fruit”, for any of the forms here, do not apply.

Declension

Declension of ሖመር (ḥomär)
Number State Case
nominative/genitive accusative
singular absolute ሖመር (ḥomär) ሖመረ (ḥomärä)
construct ሖመረ (ḥomärä)
With possessive pronouns 1s ሖመርየ (ḥomäryä)
2ms ሖመርከ (ḥomärkä) ሖመረከ (ḥomäräkä)
2fs ሖመርኪ (ḥomärki) ሖመረኪ (ḥomäräki)
3ms ሖመሩ (ḥomäru) ሖመሮ (ḥomäro)
3fs ሖመራ (ḥomära)
1p ሖመርነ (ḥomärnä) ሖመረነ (ḥomäränä)
2mp ሖመርክሙ (ḥomärkəmu) ሖመረክሙ (ḥomäräkmu)
2fp ሖመርክን (ḥomärkən) ሖመረክን (ḥomäräkn)
3mp ሖመሮሙ (ḥomäromu)
3fp ሖመሮን (ḥomäron)
plural absolute አሕመር (ʾäḥmär) አሕመረ (ʾäḥmärä)
construct አሕመረ (ʾäḥmärä)
With possessive pronouns 1s አሕመርየ (ʾäḥmäryä)
2ms አሕመሪከ (ʾäḥmärikä)
2fs አሕመርኪ (ʾäḥmärki); አሕመሪኪ (ʾäḥmäriki)
3ms አሕመሪሁ (ʾäḥmärihu)
3fs አሕመሪሃ (ʾäḥmäriha)
1p አሕመሪነ (ʾäḥmärinä)
2mp አሕመሪክሙ (ʾäḥmärikmu)
2fp አሕመሪክን (ʾäḥmärikn)
3mp አሕመሪሆሙ (ʾäḥmärihomu)
3fp አሕመሪሆን (ʾäḥmärihon)

References

  • Bulakh, Maria (2016) “Was There a Color Term *ḥmr ‘to be red’ in Proto-Semitic?”, in Babel und Bibel 9. Proceedings of the 6th Biennial Meeting of the International Association for Comparative Semitics and Other Studies, Penn State University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 6–7
  • Dillmann, August (1865) “ሐመር”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 76
  • Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 234
  • “ሐመር”, in Ancient Ethiopic TraCES Corpus (of Beta maṣāḥǝft), Hamburg, 2014–2019

Tigre

ሖመር

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حُمَر (ḥumar, “tamarind”).

Noun

ሖመር • (ḥomär)

  1. tamarind (fruit and tree)

References

  • Bulakh, Maria (2016) “Was There a Color Term *ḥmr ‘to be red’ in Proto-Semitic?”, in Babel und Bibel 9. Proceedings of the 6th Biennial Meeting of the International Association for Comparative Semitics and Other Studies, Penn State University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 6–7
  • Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ሖመር”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)‎, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 60b

Tigrinya

ሖመር

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حُمَر (ḥumar, “tamarind”).

Noun

ሖመር • (ḥomär)

  1. tamarind (fruit and tree)

References

  • Bulakh, Maria (2016) “Was There a Color Term *ḥmr ‘to be red’ in Proto-Semitic?”, in Babel und Bibel 9. Proceedings of the 6th Biennial Meeting of the International Association for Comparative Semitics and Other Studies, Penn State University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 6–7
  • Schweinfurth, Georg August (1893) Abyssinische Pflanzennamen: eine alphabetische Aufzählung von Namen einheimischer Gewächse in Tigrinja sowie in anderen semitischen und hamitischen Sprachen von Abyssinien, unter Beifügung der botanischen Artbezeichnung (Abhandlungen der königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin / Sitzungsberichte St. XXXIII. S. 647) (in German), Berlin: Verlag der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Commission bei Georg Reimer, page 35
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