ቤት

Amharic
ቤት(1)።
ቤት(2)።

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *bayt-. Cognates include Ge'ez ቤት (bet) and Tigrinya ቤት (bet).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbet/
  • Hyphenation: ቤት

Noun

ቤት • (bet) m

  1. house
  2. room
  3. family
  4. generation
  5. stall, stable
  6. verse (of poetry)
  7. box, sheath
  8. (grammar) person
  9. (mathematics) period

Declension
Definiteness forms of ቤት (bet)
Masculine
Indefinite ቤት (bet)
Definite subject ቤቱ (betu)
Definite object ቤቱን (betun)
General object ቤትን (betən)
Possessive forms of ቤት (bet)
Singular Plural Formal
First person ቤቴ (bete) ቤታችን (betaččən) —
Second person m ቤትህ (betəh) ቤታችሁ (betaččəhu) ቤትዎ (betwo)
f ቤትሽ (betəš)
Third person m ቤቱ (betu) ቤታቸው (betaččäw)
f ቤቷ (betʷa)

Derived terms

References
  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ቤት”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
  • Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 3

Ge'ez

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *bayt-.

Noun

ቤት • (bet) (plural አብያት)

  1. house
  • ቤተ (betä)
  • አቤተ (ʾäbetä)
  • ምብያት (məbyat)
  • አብያታዊ (ʾäbyatawi)

References

Tigrinya

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *bayt-.

Noun

ቤት • (bet)

  1. house
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