አባት
Amharic edit
Alternative forms edit
- አብ (ʾab) — Old Amharic
Etymology edit
From Proto-Semitic *ʔabw- (“father”). Cognates include Ge'ez አብ (ʾäb) and Tigre አብ (ʾäb).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
አባት • (ʾabbat) m
Coordinate terms edit
- (father): እናት (ʾənnat, “mother”)
References edit
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “አባት”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
- Enno Littmann, editor (1943), “Altamharisches Glossar. Der Wortschatz in den „Canzoni Geez-Amariña“”, in Rivista degli studi orientali[1] (in Tigre), volume 40, page 492a