አዲስ

Amharic

Root
አ-ደ-ሰ (ʾä-dä-sä)

Alternative forms

• ሐዲስ (ḥaddis), ሐጅስ (ḥaǧǧəs)

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Semitic *ḥdṯ-. Compare Arabic حَدِيث (ḥadīṯ) and Hebrew חדש (ḥadaš).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈ(ʔ)adːis/
• Hyphenation: አ‧ዲስ

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Adjective

አዲስ • (ʾaddis) (plural አዳዲስ (ʾadaddis))

1. new

Declension

Definiteness forms of አዲስ (ʾäddis)

	Masculine	Feminine
Indefinite	አዲስ (ʾäddis)
Definite subject	አዲሱ (ʾäddisu)	አዲሷ (ʾäddisʷa) አዲሲቱ (ʾäddisitu) አዲሲቷ (ʾäddisitʷa)
Definite object	አዲሱን (ʾäddisun)	አዲሷን (ʾäddisʷan) አዲሲቱን (ʾäddisitun) አዲሲቷን (ʾäddisitʷan)
General object	አዲስን (ʾäddisən)

References

• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 1306b