حبشي

Arabic

Etymology

Relative adjective (nisba) composed of اَلْحَبَشَة (al-ḥabaša, “Ethiopia, the Ethiopians”) +‎ ـِيّ (-iyy).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ħa.ba.ʃijj/

Noun

حَبَشِيّ • (ḥabašiyy) m

1. Ethiopian

Declension

Declension of noun حَبَشِيّ (ḥabašiyy)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	حَبَشِي ḥabašī	الْحَبَشِي al-ḥabašī	حَبَشِي ḥabašī
Nominative	حَبَشِيٌّ ḥabašiyyun	الْحَبَشِيُّ al-ḥabašiyyu	حَبَشِيُّ ḥabašiyyu
Accusative	حَبَشِيًّا ḥabašiyyan	الْحَبَشِيَّ al-ḥabašiyya	حَبَشِيَّ ḥabašiyya
Genitive	حَبَشِيٍّ ḥabašiyyin	الْحَبَشِيِّ al-ḥabašiyyi	حَبَشِيِّ ḥabašiyyi

Descendants

• → Ge'ez: ሐበሺ (ḥäbäši), ኀበሺ (ḫäbäši)
• → Classical Persian: حبشی (habašī)
  • → Middle Bengali: হাবেসি (hābeśi)
    • Bengali: হাবশি (habośi)
  • → Gujarati: હબસી (habsī)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: हब्शी (habśī)

    Urdu: حبشی (habśī)

  • → Kashmiri: हब्शी (habśī)
  • → Marathi: हबशी (habśī)
  • → Nepali: हब्सी (habsī)
  • → Odia: ହାବସୀ (hābasi), ହାପସୀ (hāpasi)
  • → Pashto: حبشي
  • → Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਹਬਸ਼ੀ (habśī)

    Shahmukhi script: حبشی (habśī)

• → Medieval Latin: Abissīnus (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• Freytag, Georg (1830) “حبشي”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 335a
• Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “حبشي”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “حبشي”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[2], London: Williams & Norgate, page 501c
• Wehr, Hans (1960) “حبشي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz