ጥበብ

Amharic

Etymology
Root
ጥ-ብ-ብ
(ṭə-bə-bə)

Related to Tigrinya ጥበብ (ṭəbäb).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtʼɨbəb/
  • Hyphenation: ጥ‧በብ

Noun

ጥበብ • (ṭəbäb) m

  1. ability, skill
  2. wisdom, knowledge

Declension
Definiteness forms of ጥበብ (ṭəbäb)
Masculine
Indefinite ጥበብ (ṭəbäb)
Definite subject ጥበቡ (ṭəbäbu)
Definite object ጥበቡን (ṭəbäbun)
General object ጥበብን (ṭəbäbən)
Possessive forms of ጥበብ (ṭəbäb)
Singular Plural Formal
First person ጥበቤ (ṭəbäbe) ጥበባችን (ṭəbäbaččən) —
Second person m ጥበብህ (ṭəbäbəh) ጥበባችሁ (ṭəbäbaččəhu) ጥበብዎ (ṭəbäbwo)
f ጥበብሽ (ṭəbäbəš)
Third person m ጥበቡ (ṭəbäbu) ጥበባቸው (ṭəbäbaččäw)
f ጥበቧ (ṭəbäbʷa)

References
  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ጠበበ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
  • Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 46

Tigrinya

Noun

ጥበብ • (ṭəbäb) f

  1. art
  2. wisdom
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