ልብ

Amharic

ልብ

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *libb-. Cognates include Ge'ez ልብ (ləbb) and Arabic لُبّ (lubb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɨbː/
• Hyphenation: ልብ

• Audio:

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Noun

ልብ • (ləbb) m

1. heart
2. belly
3. chest
4. courage
5. attention
6. truth, fact
7. mind, intelligence

Declension

Definiteness forms of ልብ

	masculine
indefinite	ልብ (ləbb)
definite subject	ልቡ (ləbbu)
definite object	ልቡን (ləbbun)
general object	ልብን (ləbbən)

Possessive forms of ልብ (ləbb)

		singular	plural	formal
first person		ልቤ (ləbbe)	ልባችን (ləbbaččən)	—
second person	m	ልብህ (ləbbəh)	ልባችሁ (ləbbaččəhu)	ልብዎ (ləbbwo)
	f	ልብሽ (ləbbəš)
third person	m	ልቡ (ləbbu)	ልባቸው (ləbbaččäw)
	f	ልቧ (ləbbʷa)

References

• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ልብ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
• Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 14

Ge'ez

Root
ለ-በ-በ (lä-bä-bä)
1 term

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *libb-.

Noun

ልብ • (ləbb) m (plural አልባብ)

1. heart

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “ልብ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel

Tigre

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *libb-.

Noun

ልብ • (ləbb) m

1. heart