ቤት
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Amharic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Semitic *bayt-. Cognates include Ge'ez ቤት (bet) and Tigrinya ቤት (bet).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ቤት • (bet) m
- house
- room
- family
- generation
- stall, stable
- verse (of poetry)
- box, sheath
- (grammar) person
- (mathematics) period
Declension
[edit]Definiteness forms of ቤት (bet)
Possessive forms of ቤት (bet)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ቤት”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
- Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 3
Ge'ez
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Semitic *bayt-.
Noun
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Dillmann, August (1865) “ቤት”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel
Tigrinya
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Semitic *bayt-.
Noun
[edit]ቤት • (bet)
Categories:
- Amharic terms inherited from Proto-Semitic
- Amharic terms derived from Proto-Semitic
- Amharic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Amharic lemmas
- Amharic nouns
- Amharic masculine nouns
- am:Grammar
- am:Mathematics
- am:Buildings
- Ge'ez terms inherited from Proto-Semitic
- Ge'ez terms derived from Proto-Semitic
- Ge'ez lemmas
- Ge'ez nouns
- Tigrinya terms inherited from Proto-Semitic
- Tigrinya terms derived from Proto-Semitic
- Tigrinya lemmas
- Tigrinya nouns