ሕልም

Amharic

Root
ሐ-ለ-መ (ḥä-lä-mä)

Etymology

Cognates include Arabic حُلْم (ḥulm) and Ge'ez ሕልም (ḥəlm).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɨlm/
• Hyphenation: ሕልም

Noun

ሕልም • (ḥəlm) m

1. dream

Declension

Definiteness forms of ሕልም (ḥəlm)

	Masculine
Indefinite	ሕልም (ḥəlm)
Definite subject	ሕልሙ (ḥəlmu)
Definite object	ሕልሙን (ḥəlmun)
General object	ሕልምን (ḥəlmən)

Possessive forms of ሕልም (ḥəlm)

		Singular	Plural	Formal
First person		ሕልሜ (ḥəlme)	ሕልማችን (ḥəlmaččən)	—
Second person	m	ሕልምህ (ḥəlməh)	ሕልማችሁ (ḥəlmaččəhu)	ሕልምዎ (ḥəlmwo)
	f	ሕልምሽ (ḥəlməš)
Third person	m	ሕልሙ (ḥəlmu)	ሕልማቸው (ḥəlmaččäw)
	f	ሕልሟ (ḥəlmʷa)

References

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