ሐለመ

Amharic

Root
ሐ-ለ-መ (ḥä-lä-mä)

Etymology

From Proto-West Semitic *ḥalam-. Cognates include Arabic حَلَمَ (ḥalama) and Ge'ez ሐለመ (ḥälämä).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /halˈləmə/
• Hyphenation: ሐ‧ለ‧መ

Verb

ሐለመ • (ḥallämä)

1. (intransitive) to dream

References

• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ሐለመ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 4