ሕዝብ

Amharic

Alternative forms

• ህዝብ (həzb)

Etymology

Cognate with Ge'ez ሕዝብ (ḥəzb) and Arabic حِزْب (ḥizb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɨzb/
• Hyphenation: ሕዝብ

Noun

ሕዝብ • (ḥəzb) m (plural ሕዝቦች (ḥəzbočč) or አሕዛብ (ʾaḥzab) or አሕዛቦች (ʾaḥzabočč) or አሕዛቢ (ʾaḥzabi) or አዛቢ (ʾazzabi))

1. people, crowd

Declension

Definiteness forms of ሕዝብ (ḥəzb)

	Masculine
Indefinite	ሕዝብ (ḥəzb)
Definite subject	ሕዝቡ (ḥəzbu)
Definite object	ሕዝቡን (ḥəzbun)
General object	ሕዝብን (ḥəzbən)

Possessive forms of ሕዝብ (ḥəzb)

		Singular	Plural	Formal
First person		ሕዝቤ (ḥəzbe)	ሕዝባችን (ḥəzbaččən)	—
Second person	m	ሕዝብህ (ḥəzbəh)	ሕዝባችሁ (ḥəzbaččəhu)	ሕዝብዎ (ḥəzbwo)
	f	ሕዝብሽ (ḥəzbəš)
Third person	m	ሕዝቡ (ḥəzbu)	ሕዝባቸው (ḥəzbaččäw)
	f	ሕዝቧ (ḥəzbʷa)

References

• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ሕዝብ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 24

Ge'ez

Etymology

Related to Arabic ح ز ب (ḥ-z-b).

Noun

ሕዝብ • (ḥəzb) m or f (plural ሕዘብ or አሕዛብ)

1. tribe, people, nation

Related terms

• ሐዘበ (ḥäzäbä)
• አሕዘበ (ʾäḥzäbä)
• ተሐዝበ (täḥäzbä)
• ተሐዘበ (täḥäzäbä)
• አስተሐዘበ (ʾästäḥäzäbä)
• ሕዝበት (ḥəzbät)
• ትሕዝብት (təḥzəbt)
• ሕዝብና (ḥəzbəna)
• ሕዝባዊ (ḥəzbawi)

References

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