ስምንት

Amharic

Amharic numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: ስምንት (səmmənt)     Ordinal: ስምንተኛ (səmməntäñña)     Adverbial: ስምንቴ (səmmənte)

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ṯamāniy-. Cognates include Arabic ثَمَانِيَة (ṯamāniya) and Ge'ez ሰማንቱ (sämantu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɨmːɨnt/
• Hyphenation: ስ‧ምንት

Numeral

ስምንት • (səmmənt)

1. eight

References

• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ስምንት”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 473
• Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 50