አምስት

Amharic

Amharic numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: አምስት (ʾamməst)     Ordinal: አምስተኛ (ʾamstäñña)     Adverbial: አምስቴ (ʾamste)

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ḫamš-. Cognates include Arabic خَمْسَة (ḵamsa) and Ge'ez ኀምስቱ (ḫämsətu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈ(ʔ)amːɨst/
• Hyphenation: አ‧ምስት

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Numeral

አምስት • (ʾamməst)

1. five

References

• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “አምስት”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 1126
• Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 50