ቃል

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Amharic

Etymology

From Proto-West Semitic *ḳawl- (“voice”). Cognates include Ge'ez ቃል (ḳal) and Hebrew קוֹל (kol).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʼal/
  • Hyphenation: ቃል

Noun

ቃል • (ḳal) m

  1. word
  2. voice
  3. sound
  4. speech
  5. promise
  6. statement
  7. expression
  8. vote
  9. message
  10. (Christianity) Word

Declension

Definiteness forms of ቃል (ḳal)
Masculine
Indefinite ቃል (ḳal)
Definite subject ቃሉ (ḳalu)
Definite object ቃሉን (ḳalun)
General object ቃልን (ḳalən)
Possessive forms of ቃል (ḳal)
Singular Plural Formal
First person ቃሌ (ḳale) ቃላችን (ḳalaččən) —
Second person m ቃልህ (ḳaləh) ቃላችሁ (ḳalaččəhu) ቃልዎ (ḳalwo)
f ቃልሽ (ḳaləš)
Third person m ቃሉ (ḳalu) ቃላቸው (ḳalaččäw)
f ቃሏ (ḳalʷa)

Descendants

  • → Sidamo: qaale

References

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

Tigrinya

Noun

ቃል • (ḳal) m (plural ቃላት (ḳalat))

  1. word
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