ሸለመ

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Amharic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃəlːəmə/
  • Hyphenation: ሸ‧ለ‧መ

Verb

ሸለመ (šällämä)

  1. (transitive) to decorate
  2. (intransitive) to give an award
  3. (intransitive) to recover from a minor illness
  4. (intransitive) to get pockmarks on one's face
  5. (intransitive) to recover from smallpox, but retain pockmarks on one's face

Derived terms

References

  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ሸለመ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
  • Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 15