dabeela

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Afar

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Dabeela.

Etymology

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Borrowed from Amharic ዳቤላ (dabela).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /daˈbeːla/ [dʌˈbeːlʌ]
  • Hyphenation: da‧bee‧la

Noun

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dabéela m (feminine reytá, plural dabelwá f)

  1. billy goat

Declension

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Declension of dabéela
absolutive dabéela
predicative dabéela
subjective dabeelí
genitive dabeelí
Postpositioned forms
l-case dabéelal
k-case dabéelak
t-case dabéelat
h-case dabéelah

See also

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References

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  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “dabeèla”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
  • 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[1], Leiden: Leiden University
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)