አፍንጫ

Amharic

Etymology

Unknown. Kogan rejects Appleyard's suggestion of a connection to Proto-Semitic *ʔanp-, in part because of evidence that the initial consonant was originally /w/, but mentions a phonologically problematic suggestion from Bulakh that connects the term with ተናፈጠ (tänaffäṭä, “blow one's nose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈ(ʔ)afɨnt͡ʃʼa/

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• Hyphenation: አ‧ፍን‧ጫ

Noun

አፍንጫ • (ʾafənč̣a) m

1. nose, nostril

Declension

Definiteness forms of አፍንጫ (ʾafənč̣a)

	Masculine
Indefinite	አፍንጫ (ʾafənč̣a)
Definite subject	አፍንጫው (ʾafənč̣aw)
Definite object	አፍንጫውን (ʾafənč̣awən)
General object	አፍንጫን (ʾafənč̣an)

Possessive forms of አፍንጫ (ʾafənč̣a)

		Singular	Plural	Formal
First person		አፍንጫዬ (ʾafənč̣aye)	አፍንጫችን (ʾafənč̣aččən)	—
Second person	m	አፍንጫህ (ʾafənč̣ah)	አፍንጫችሁ (ʾafənč̣aččəhu)	አፍንጫዎ (ʾafənč̣awo)
	f	አፍንጫሽ (ʾafənč̣aš)
Third person	m	አፍንጫው (ʾafənč̣aw)	አፍንጫቸው (ʾafənč̣aččäw)
	f	አፍንጫዋ (ʾafənč̣awa)

References

• Leslau, Wolf (1976, 1993) Concise Amharic Dictionary: Amharic-English: English-Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “አፍንጫ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
• Kogan, Leonid (2015) Genealogical Classification of Semitic. The Lexical Isoglosses, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 41–42