ቅዱስ

Amharic

Root
ቀ-ደ-ሰ (ḳä-dä-sä)
3 terms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-West Semitic *ḳudš-, from Proto-Semitic *ḳudš- (“holy”).

Adjective

ቅዱስ • (ḳədus)

1. holy, blessed

Declension

Definiteness forms of ቅዱስ

	masculine	feminine
indefinite	ቅዱስ (ḳədus)
definite subject	ቅዱሱ (ḳədusu)	ቅዱሷ (ḳədusʷa) ቅዱሲቱ (ḳədusitu) ቅዱሲቷ (ḳədusitʷa)
definite object	ቅዱሱን (ḳədusun)	ቅዱሷን (ḳədusʷan) ቅዱሲቱን (ḳədusitun) ቅዱሲቷን (ḳədusitʷan)
general object	ቅዱስን (ḳədusən)

Noun

ቅዱስ • (ḳədus) m or f by sense (plural ቅዱሶች (ḳədusoč))

1. A saint.

Declension

Definiteness forms of ቅዱስ

	masculine	feminine
indefinite	ቅዱስ (ḳədus)
definite subject	ቅዱሱ (ḳədusu)	ቅዱሷ (ḳədusʷa) ቅዱሲቱ (ḳədusitu) ቅዱሲቷ (ḳədusitʷa)
definite object	ቅዱሱን (ḳədusun)	ቅዱሷን (ḳədusʷan) ቅዱሲቱን (ḳədusitun) ቅዱሲቷን (ḳədusitʷan)
general object	ቅዱስን (ḳədusən)

Possessive forms of ቅዱስ (ḳədus)

		singular	plural	formal
first person		ቅዱሴ (ḳəduse)	ቅዱሳችን (ḳədusaččən)	—
second person	m	ቅዱስህ (ḳədusəh)	ቅዱሳችሁ (ḳədusaččəhu)	ቅዱስዎ (ḳəduswo)
	f	ቅዱስሽ (ḳədusəš)
third person	m	ቅዱሱ (ḳədusu)	ቅዱሳቸው (ḳədusaččäw)
	f	ቅዱሷ (ḳədusʷa)

References

• “ቅዱስ”, in Amharic Dictionary‎^[1] (overall work in English), Amharic Teacher

Ge'ez

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Semitic *ḳudš- (“holy”). Cognate with Arabic قُدْس (quds) and Hebrew קודש.

Adjective

ቅዱስ • (qəddus) m

1. holy, sacred

Noun

ቅዱስ • (qəddus) m (plural ቅዱሳን)

1. a saint

References

• Dillmann, August (1865), “ቅዱስ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel