በቅሎ

Amharic

በቅሎ።

Alternative forms

• በቍሎ (bäḳʷlo) — Old Amharic by-form, plural also አባቍልት (ʾäbaḳʷələt)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ge'ez በቅል (bäḳl).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbəkʼlo/
• Hyphenation: በቅ‧ሎ

Noun

በቅሎ • (bäḳlo) m or f by sense (plural በቅሎች (bäḳločč) or በቅሎዎች (bäḳlowočč))

1. mule

Declension

Definiteness forms of በቅሎ (bäḳlo)

	Masculine	Feminine
Indefinite	በቅሎ (bäḳlo)
Definite subject	በቅሎው (bäḳlow)	በቅሎዋ (bäḳlowa) በቅሎይቱ (bäḳloyətu) በቅሎይቷ (bäḳloyətʷa)
Definite object	በቅሎውን (bäḳlowən)	በቅሎዋን (bäḳlowan) በቅሎይቱን (bäḳloyətun) በቅሎይቷን (bäḳloyətʷan)
General object	በቅሎን (bäḳlon)

Possessive forms of በቅሎ (bäḳlo)

		Singular	Plural	Formal
First person		በቅሎዬ (bäḳloye)	በቅሎዋችን (bäḳlowaččən)	—
Second person	m	በቅሎህ (bäḳloh)	በቅሎዋችሁ (bäḳlowaččəhu)	በቅሎዎ (bäḳlowo)
	f	በቅሎሽ (bäḳloš)
Third person	m	በቅሎው (bäḳlow)	በቅሎዋቸው (bäḳlowaččäw)
	f	በቅሎዋ (bäḳlowa)

References

• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “በቅሎ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
• Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 12
• Enno Littmann, editor (1943), “Altamharisches Glossar. Der Wortschatz in den „Canzoni Geez-Amariña“”, in Rivista degli studi orientali‎^[1] (in Tigre), volume 40, page 489a

Argobba

Alternative forms

• በግሎ (bäglo) (Aliyu Amba)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ge'ez በቅል (bäḳl).

Noun

በቅሎ (bäḳlo) m or f

1. mule

References

• Leslau, Wolf (1997) Ethiopic Documents: Argobba: Grammar and Dictionary (Aethiopistische Forschungen; 47), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 195