ጨረቃ

Amharic

Etymology

Borrowed from a Cushitic language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃʼəɾəkʼa/

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• Hyphenation: ጨ‧ረ‧ቃ

Noun

ጨረቃ • (č̣äräḳa) m

1. moon

Declension

Definiteness forms of ጨረቃ (č̣äräḳa)

	Masculine
Indefinite	ጨረቃ (č̣äräḳa)
Definite subject	ጨረቃው (č̣äräḳaw)
Definite object	ጨረቃውን (č̣äräḳawən)
General object	ጨረቃን (č̣äräḳan)

Possessive forms of ጨረቃ (č̣äräḳa)

		Singular	Plural	Formal
First person		ጨረቃዬ (č̣äräḳaye)	ጨረቃችን (č̣äräḳaččən)	—
Second person	m	ጨረቃህ (č̣äräḳah)	ጨረቃችሁ (č̣äräḳaččəhu)	ጨረቃዎ (č̣äräḳawo)
	f	ጨረቃሽ (č̣äräḳaš)
Third person	m	ጨረቃው (č̣äräḳaw)	ጨረቃቸው (č̣äräḳaččäw)
	f	ጨረቃዋ (č̣äräḳawa)

References

• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ጨረቃ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN