ድመት
Amharic
editEtymology
editLocal Ethiopian Semitic Lockwort. Cognates include Ge'ez ድመት (dəmmät) and presumable Ethiopian borrowing Arabic دِمّ (dimm), the similarity to Standard Babylonian 𒁺𒈠𒈬 (du-ma-mu /dumāmu/, “leopard”) being a coincidence.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editድመት • (dəmmät) m or f by sense
Declension
editDefiniteness forms of ድመት (dəmmät)
Possessive forms of ድመት (dəmmät)
References
edit- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ድመት”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN