አልቦ

Amharic

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ge'ez አልቦ (ʾälbo, “there is no”), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *ʔal.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈ(ʔ)albo/
  • Hyphenation: አል‧ቦ

Noun

አልቦ • (ʾalbo) m

  1. bead
  2. woman's anklet made of beads
  3. mule's necklet made of beads

Declension
Definiteness forms of አልቦ (ʾalbo)
Masculine
Indefinite አልቦ (ʾalbo)
Definite subject አልቦው (ʾalbow)
Definite object አልቦውን (ʾalbowən)
General object አልቦን (ʾalbon)
Possessive forms of አልቦ (ʾalbo)
Singular Plural Formal
First person አልቦዬ (ʾalboye) አልቦዋችን (ʾalbowaččən) —
Second person m አልቦህ (ʾalboh) አልቦዋችሁ (ʾalbowaččəhu) አልቦዎ (ʾalbowo)
f አልቦሽ (ʾalboš)
Third person m አልቦው (ʾalbow) አልቦዋቸው (ʾalbowaččäw)
f አልቦዋ (ʾalbowa)

Numeral

አልቦ • (ʾalbo)

  1. (rare) Synonym of ዜሮ (zero)

References
  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “አልቦ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 1109
  • Leslau, Wolf (1995) Reference grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 251
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