ቀብድ

Amharic

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَبْض (qabḍ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʼəbd/
• Hyphenation: ቀብድ

Noun

ቀብድ • (ḳäbd) m

1. deposit, retainer

Declension

Definiteness forms of ቀብድ (ḳäbd)

	Masculine
Indefinite	ቀብድ (ḳäbd)
Definite subject	ቀብዱ (ḳäbdu)
Definite object	ቀብዱን (ḳäbdun)
General object	ቀብድን (ḳäbdən)

Possessive forms of ቀብድ (ḳäbd)

		Singular	Plural	Formal
First person		ቀብዴ (ḳäbde)	ቀብዳችን (ḳäbdaččən)	—
Second person	m	ቀብድህ (ḳäbdəh)	ቀብዳችሁ (ḳäbdaččəhu)	ቀብድዎ (ḳäbdwo)
	f	ቀብድሽ (ḳäbdəš)
Third person	m	ቀብዱ (ḳäbdu)	ቀብዳቸው (ḳäbdaččäw)
	f	ቀብዷ (ḳäbdʷa)

References

• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ቀብድ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 772