ባል

Amharic

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *baʕl-. Cognates include Ge'ez በዓል (bäʿal) and Tigrinya በዓል (bäʿal).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbal/
• Hyphenation: ባል

Noun

ባል • (bal) m

1. husband
2. master
3. festival

Declension

Definiteness forms of ባል (bal)

	Masculine
Indefinite	ባል (bal)
Definite subject	ባሉ (balu)
Definite object	ባሉን (balun)
General object	ባልን (balən)

Possessive forms of ባል (bal)

		Singular	Plural	Formal
First person		ባሌ (bale)	ባላችን (balaččən)	—
Second person	m	ባልህ (baləh)	ባላችሁ (balaččəhu)	ባልዎ (balwo)
	f	ባልሽ (baləš)
Third person	m	ባሉ (balu)	ባላቸው (balaččäw)
	f	ባሏ (balʷa)

Coordinate terms

• (husband): ሚስት (mist, “wife”)

References

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