ቀበቶ

Amharic

Etymology

From ቀበተ (ḳäbbätä, “to put on a belt”) +‎ -ኦ (-o).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʼəbətto/
• Hyphenation: ቀበ‧ቶ

Noun

ቀበቶ • (ḳäbätto) m

1. belt

Declension

Definiteness forms of ቀበቶ (ḳäbätto)

	Masculine
Indefinite	ቀበቶ (ḳäbätto)
Definite subject	ቀበቶው (ḳäbättow)
Definite object	ቀበቶውን (ḳäbättowən)
General object	ቀበቶን (ḳäbätton)

Possessive forms of ቀበቶ (ḳäbätto)

		Singular	Plural	Formal
First person		ቀበቶዬ (ḳäbättoye)	ቀበቶዋችን (ḳäbättowaččən)	—
Second person	m	ቀበቶህ (ḳäbättoh)	ቀበቶዋችሁ (ḳäbättowaččəhu)	ቀበቶዎ (ḳäbättowo)
	f	ቀበቶሽ (ḳäbättoš)
Third person	m	ቀበቶው (ḳäbättow)	ቀበቶዋቸው (ḳäbättowaččäw)
	f	ቀበቶዋ (ḳäbättowa)

References

• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ቀበቶ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 770