ሩዝ

Amharic

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رُزّ (ruzz).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɾuz/
  • Hyphenation: ሩዝ

Noun

ሩዝ • (ruz) m

  1. rice

Declension
Definiteness forms of ሩዝ (ruz)
Masculine
Indefinite ሩዝ (ruz)
Definite subject ሩዙ (ruzu)
Definite object ሩዙን (ruzun)
General object ሩዝን (ruzən)
Possessive forms of ሩዝ (ruz)
Singular Plural Formal
First person ሩዜ (ruze) ሩዛችን (ruzaččən) —
Second person m ሩዝህ (ruzəh) ሩዛችሁ (ruzaččəhu) ሩዝዎ (ruzwo)
f ሩዝሽ (ruzəš)
Third person m ሩዙ (ruzu) ሩዛቸው (ruzaččäw)
f ሩዟ (ruzʷa)

Descendants
  • →? Afar: rúddi (possibly from Arabic)

References
  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ሩዝ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN

Tigrinya

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رُزّ (ruzz).

Noun

ሩዝ • (ruz) m

  1. rice
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