makiina
Afar edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from a Yemeni Arabic term equivalent to Standard Arabic مَاكِينَة (mākīna).
The sense "automobile" is a semantic loan from another language. Compare Amharic መኪና (mäkina) and Italian macchina.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
makiiná f (plural makáayin m)
- machine
- (Northern Afar) car, automobile
Declension edit
| Declension of makiiná | ||||||||||||||||||
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| absolutive | makiiná | |||||||||||||||||
| predicative | makiiná | |||||||||||||||||
| subjective | makiiná | |||||||||||||||||
| genitive | makiiná | |||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms edit
References edit
- E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “makiina”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)