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Amharic
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *šabʿ-. Cognates include Arabic سَبْعَة (sabʕa) and Ge'ez ሰብዐቱ (säbʿätu).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsəbatː/
- Hyphenation: ሰ‧ባት
Numeral
ሰባት • (säbatt)
- seven
References
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ሰባት”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 524
- Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 50