ዓመት
Amharic
Alternative forms
- አመት (ʾamät), ዐመት (ʿamät)
Etymology
From Proto-West Semitic *ʕām-. Cognates include Ge'ez ዓም (ʿam) and Arabic عَام (ʿām).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈ(ʔ)amət/
- Hyphenation: አ‧መት
Noun
ዓመት • (ʿamät) m (plural ዓመታት (ʾamätat) or ዓመቶች (ʾamätočč))
- year
References
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990), “ዓመት”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
Ge'ez
Alternative forms
- ዓም (ʿam)
Etymology
From Proto-West Semitic *ʕām-.
Noun
ዓመት • (ʿamät) f or m (plural ዓመታት (ʿamätat))
- year
- era, epoch
See also
- አመት (ʾämät)
References
- Dillmann, August (1865), “ዓመት”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 955–956
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 62b
Tigre
Etymology
From Proto-West Semitic *ʕām-.
Noun
ዓመት • (ʿamät) f (plural ዓሞታት (ʿamotat))
- year
- (figuratively) life
References
- Littmann, Enno; Höfner, Maria (1962), “ዓመት”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI), Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 456b
Tigrinya
Etymology
From Proto-West Semitic *ʕām-.
Noun
ዓመት • (ʿamät) (plural ዓመታት (ʿamätat))
- year
References
- da Bassano, Francesco (1918), “ዓመት”, in Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray (in Italian), Rome: Casa editrice italiana di C. de Luigi, column 675