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Amharic
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *ḫamš-. Cognates include Arabic خَمْسَة (ḵamsa) and Ge'ez ኀምስቱ (ḫämsətu).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈ(ʔ)amːɨst/
- Hyphenation: አ‧ምስት
Numeral
አምስት • (ʾamməst)
- five
References
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “አምስት”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 1126
- Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 50