ራስ

Amharic

Alternative forms

• (prothetic) እራስ (ʾəras)

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *raʔš-. Cognates include Ge'ez ርእስ (rəʾs) and Arabic رَأْس (raʔs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɾas/
• Hyphenation: ራ‧ስ

Noun

ራስ • (ras) m

1. head
2. top, summit
3. (obsolete) ras (leader ranking directly below a king)
4. When possessed, used to form reflexive pronouns; -self, -selves

   እሱ ራሱ. ― ʾəssu rasu ― He himself. (literally, “He his head.”)

Declension

Definiteness forms of ራስ (ras)

	Masculine
Indefinite	ራስ (ras)
Definite subject	ራሱ (rasu)
Definite object	ራሱን (rasun)
General object	ራስን (rasən)

Possessive forms of ራስ (ras)

		Singular	Plural	Formal
First person		ራሴ (rase)	ራሳችን (rasaččən)	—
Second person	m	ራስህ (rasəh)	ራሳችሁ (rasaččəhu)	ራስዎ (raswo)
	f	ራስሽ (rasəš)
Third person	m	ራሱ (rasu)	ራሳቸው (rasaččäw)
	f	ራሷ (rasʷa)

Descendants

• → English: ras

References

• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ራስ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
• Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 20