ዓመት

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Amharic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Semitic *ʕām-. Cognates include Ge'ez ዓም (ʿam) and Arabic عَام (ʕām).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈ(ʔ)amət/
  • Hyphenation: አ‧መት

Noun

ዓመት • (ʿamät) m (plural ዓመታት (ʾamätat) or ዓመቶች (ʾamätočč))

  1. year

Declension

Definiteness forms of ዓመት (ʿamät)
Masculine
Indefinite ዓመት (ʿamät)
Definite subject ዓመቱ (ʿamätu)
Definite object ዓመቱን (ʿamätun)
General object ዓመትን (ʿamätən)
Possessive forms of ዓመት (ʿamät)
Singular Plural Formal
First person ዓመቴ (ʿamäte) ዓመታችን (ʿamätaččən) —
Second person m ዓመትህ (ʿamätəh) ዓመታችሁ (ʿamätaččəhu) ዓመትዎ (ʿamätwo)
f ዓመትሽ (ʿamätəš)
Third person m ዓመቱ (ʿamätu) ዓመታቸው (ʿamätaččäw)
f ዓመቷ (ʿamätʷa)

References

  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ዓመት”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN

Ge'ez

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Semitic *ʕām-.

Noun

ዓመት • (ʿamät) f or m (plural ዓመታት (ʿamätat))

  1. year
  2. era, epoch

See also

References

Tigre

Etymology

From Proto-West Semitic *ʕām-.

Noun

ዓመት • (ʿamät) f (plural ዓሞታት (ʿamotat))

  1. year
  2. (figurative) life

References

  • Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ዓመት”, 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 456b

Tigrinya

Etymology

From Proto-West Semitic *ʕām-.

Noun

ዓመት • (ʿamät) (plural ዓመታት (ʿamätat))

  1. year

References

  • da Bassano, Francesco (1918) “ዓመት”, in Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray (in Italian), Rome: Casa editrice italiana di C. de Luigi, column 675
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