urru

Afar

Urru.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈurːu/, [ˈʔʊrːʊ]
• Hyphenation: ur‧ru

Noun

úrru m (singulative áwka m or awká f, plural urritté f or urruuteetá f)

1. (collective) children

Declension

Declension of úrru
absolutive	úrru
predicative	úrru
subjective	urrí
genitive	urrí
Postpositioned forms l-case úrrul k-case úrruk t-case úrrut h-case úrruh

Derived terms

• urriiná

 

See also

• xayló (“children, offspring”)

References

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “ùrru”, 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)
• Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle, Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2013 August) “Gender, Number and Agreement in Afar (Cushitic language)”, in 43th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics‎^[2], Leiden: Leiden University