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Amharic
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *piʔat-. Cognates include Arabic فِئَة (fiʔa) and Hebrew פֵּאָה.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfit/
- Hyphenation: ፊት
Noun
ፊት • (fit) m
- face
- front
Descendants
References
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ፊት”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
- Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 3