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Amharic
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic قَبْض (qabḍ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkʼəbd/
- Hyphenation: ቀብድ
Noun
ቀብድ • (ḳäbd) m
- deposit, retainer
Declension
Definiteness forms of ቀብድ (ḳäbd)
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Masculine
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| Indefinite
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ቀብድ (ḳäbd)
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| Definite subject
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ቀብዱ (ḳäbdu)
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| Definite object
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ቀብዱን (ḳäbdun)
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| General object
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ቀብድን (ḳäbdən)
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Possessive forms of ቀብድ (ḳäbd)
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Singular
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Plural
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Formal
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| First person
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ቀብዴ (ḳäbde)
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ቀብዳችን (ḳäbdaččən)
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—
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| Second person
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m
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ቀብድህ (ḳäbdəh)
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ቀብዳችሁ (ḳäbdaččəhu)
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ቀብድዎ (ḳäbdwo)
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| f
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ቀብድሽ (ḳäbdəš)
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| Third person
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m
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ቀብዱ (ḳäbdu)
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ቀብዳቸው (ḳäbdaččäw)
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| f
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ቀብዷ (ḳäbdʷa)
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References
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ቀብድ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 772