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
- Ethiopian
Declension
Declension of noun حَبَشِيّ (ḥabašiyy)
Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
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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 (habśi)
- → Gujarati: હબસી (habsī)
- → Hindustani:
- Hindi: हब्शी (habśī)
- Urdu: حبشی (habśī)
- → Kashmiri: हब्शी (habśī)
- → Marathi: हबशी (habśī)
- → Nepali: हब्सी (habsī)
- → Oriya: ହାବସୀ (habôsi), ହାପସୀ (hapôsi)
- → Pashto: حبشي
- → Punjabi:
- Gurmukhi: ਹਬਸ਼ੀ (habśī)
- Shahmukhi: حبشی (habśī)
- → Middle Bengali: হাবেসি (hābeśi)
- → 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 (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, 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