ባል
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Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *baʕl-. Cognates include Ge'ez በዓል (bäʿal) and Tigrinya በዓል (bäʿal).
Pronunciation
Noun
ባል • (bal) m
Declension
| Masculine | |
|---|---|
| Indefinite | ባል (bal) |
| Definite subject | ባሉ (balu) |
| Definite object | ባሉን (balun) |
| General object | ባልን (balən) |
Definiteness forms of ባል (bal)
| Singular | Plural | Formal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First person | ባሌ (bale) | ባላችን (balaččən) | — | |
| Second person | m | ባልህ (baləh) | ባላችሁ (balaččəhu) | ባልዎ (balwo) |
| f | ባልሽ (baləš) | |||
| Third person | m | ባሉ (balu) | ባላቸው (balaččäw) | |
| f | ባሏ (balʷa) | |||
Possessive forms of ባል (bal)
Coordinate terms
- (husband): ሚስት (mist, “wife”)
References
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ባል”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
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