ማረሻ

Amharic

Etymology

Root
አ-ረ-ሰ (ʾä-rä-sä)

From መ- (mä-) +‎ አረሰ (ʾarräsä, “to plough”) +‎ -ኢያ (-iya).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmarəʃa/
• Hyphenation: ማ‧ረ‧ሻ

Noun

ማረሻ • (maräša) m

1. instrumental noun of አረሰ (ʾarräsä): plough

Declension

Definiteness forms of ማረሻ (maräša)

	Masculine
Indefinite	ማረሻ (maräša)
Definite subject	ማረሻው (maräšaw)
Definite object	ማረሻውን (maräšawən)
General object	ማረሻን (maräšan)

Possessive forms of ማረሻ (maräša)

		Singular	Plural	Formal
First person		ማረሻዬ (maräšaye)	ማረሻችን (maräšaččən)	—
Second person	m	ማረሻህ (maräšah)	ማረሻችሁ (maräšaččəhu)	ማረሻዎ (maräšawo)
	f	ማረሻሽ (maräšaš)
Third person	m	ማረሻው (maräšaw)	ማረሻቸው (maräšaččäw)
	f	ማረሻዋ (maräšawa)

References

• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “አረሰ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
• Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 15