ልብ

Amharic

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *libb-. Cognates include Ge'ez ልብ (ləbb) and Arabic لُبّ (lubb).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈlɨbː/
  • Hyphenation: ልብ
  • Audio(file)

Noun

ልብ • (ləbb) m

  1. heart
  2. belly
  3. chest
  4. courage
  5. attention
  6. truth, fact
  7. mind, intelligence

Declension
Definiteness forms of ልብ (ləbb)
Masculine
Indefinite ልብ (ləbb)
Definite subject ልቡ (ləbbu)
Definite object ልቡን (ləbbun)
General object ልብን (ləbbən)
Possessive forms of ልብ (ləbb)
Singular Plural Formal
First person ልቤ (ləbbe) ልባችን (ləbbaččən) —
Second person m ልብህ (ləbbəh) ልባችሁ (ləbbaččəhu) ልብዎ (ləbbwo)
f ልብሽ (ləbbəš)
Third person m ልቡ (ləbbu) ልባቸው (ləbbaččäw)
f ልቧ (ləbbʷa)

References
  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ልብ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
  • Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 14

Ge'ez

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *libb-.

Noun

ልብ • (ləbb) m (plural አልባብ)

  1. heart

References

Tigre

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *libb-.

Noun

ልብ • (ləbb) m

  1. heart
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