adiakari
Basque
editEtymology
editFrom adia (“lament”) + -kari.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editadiakari anim
- weeper (particularly a hired mourner)
- 1913, Marcel Proust, translated by Joxe Austin Arrieta, Swann-etik [Swann's Way] (Denbora galduaren bila [In Search of Lost Time])[1], Alberdania-Elkar, published 2010, →ISBN:
- Txori bat ote, perpaus txikiaren arima oraino osagabea ote, lamina bat ote, izaki ikusezin eta adiakari hori, zeinaren pleinua segidan errepikatzen baitzuen pianoak samurki?
- Was it a bird, was it the soul, as yet not fully formed, of the little phrase, was it a fairy—that being invisibly lamenting, whose plaint the piano heard and tenderly repeated?
- Eurasian scops owl (Otus scops)
- Synonym: apo-hontz
Declension
editDeclension of adiakari (animate, ending in vowel)
indefinite | singular | plural | |
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absolutive | adiakari | adiakaria | adiakariak |
ergative | adiakarik | adiakariak | adiakariek |
dative | adiakariri | adiakariari | adiakariei |
genitive | adiakariren | adiakariaren | adiakarien |
comitative | adiakarirekin | adiakariarekin | adiakariekin |
causative | adiakarirengatik | adiakariarengatik | adiakariengatik |
benefactive | adiakarirentzat | adiakariarentzat | adiakarientzat |
instrumental | adiakariz | adiakariaz | adiakariez |
inessive | adiakarirengan | adiakariarengan | adiakariengan |
locative | — | — | — |
allative | adiakarirengana | adiakariarengana | adiakariengana |
terminative | adiakarirenganaino | adiakariarenganaino | adiakarienganaino |
directive | adiakarirenganantz | adiakariarenganantz | adiakarienganantz |
destinative | adiakarirenganako | adiakariarenganako | adiakarienganako |
ablative | adiakarirengandik | adiakariarengandik | adiakariengandik |
partitive | adiakaririk | — | — |
prolative | adiakaritzat | — | — |
Further reading
edit- “adiakari”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
- “adiakari”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005