حبشي
Arabic
editEtymology
editRelative adjective (nisba) composed of اَلْحَبَشَة (al-ḥabaša, “Ethiopia, the Ethiopians”) + ـِيّ (-iyy).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editحَبَشِيّ • (ḥabašiyy) m
Declension
editDeclension of noun حَبَشِيّ (ḥabašiyy)
Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
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Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
Informal | حَبَشِي ḥabašī |
الْحَبَشِي al-ḥabašī |
حَبَشِي ḥabašī |
Nominative | حَبَشِيٌّ ḥabašiyyun |
الْحَبَشِيُّ al-ḥabašiyyu |
حَبَشِيُّ ḥabašiyyu |
Accusative | حَبَشِيًّا ḥabašiyyan |
الْحَبَشِيَّ al-ḥabašiyya |
حَبَشِيَّ ḥabašiyya |
Genitive | حَبَشِيٍّ ḥabašiyyin |
الْحَبَشِيِّ al-ḥabašiyyi |
حَبَشِيِّ ḥabašiyyi |
Descendants
edit- → Ge'ez: ሐበሺ (ḥäbäši), ኀበሺ (ḫäbäši)
- → Classical Persian: حبشی (habašī)
- → Medieval Latin: Abissīnus (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
edit- Freytag, Georg (1830) “حبشي”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 335a
- Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “حبشي”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
- Lane, Edward William (1863) “حبشي”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[2], London: Williams & Norgate, page 501c
- Wehr, Hans (1960) “حبشي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz