ሦስት

Amharic

Amharic numbers ^(edit)

	30
←  2	፫ 3	4  →
Cardinal: ሦስት (śost)     Ordinal: ሦስተኛ (śostäñña)     Adverbial: ሦስቴ (śoste)     Fractional: ሢሶ (śiso)

Alternative forms

• ሶስት (sost)

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ṯalāṯatum. Cognates include Arabic ثَلَاثَة (ṯalāṯa) and Ge'ez ሠለስቱ (śälästu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsost/
• Hyphenation: ሦስት

Numeral

ሦስት • (śost)

1. three

References

• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ሦስት”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 502
• Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 50