እምስ

Amharic

Alternative forms

• (archaic) ሕምስ (ḥəms)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Semitic *ḥamṯ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈ(ʔ)ɨms/
• Hyphenation: እምስ

Noun

እምስ • (ʾəms) m

1. vagina, vulva
2. (slang) pussy

Declension

Definiteness forms of እምስ (ʾəms)

	Masculine
Indefinite	እምስ (ʾəms)
Definite subject	እምሱ (ʾəmsu)
Definite object	እምሱን (ʾəmsun)
General object	እምስን (ʾəmsən)

Possessive forms of እምስ (ʾəms)

		Singular	Plural	Formal
First person		እምሴ (ʾəmse)	እምሳችን (ʾəmsaččən)	—
Second person	m	እምስህ (ʾəmsəh)	እምሳችሁ (ʾəmsaččəhu)	እምስዎ (ʾəmswo)
	f	እምስሽ (ʾəmsəš)
Third person	m	እምሱ (ʾəmsu)	እምሳቸው (ʾəmsaččäw)
	f	እምሷ (ʾəmsʷa)

See also

• ቂንጥር (ḳinṭər, “clitoris”)

References

• d’Abbadie, Antoine (1881) “ሕምስ”, in Dictionnaire de la langue amariñña (Actes de la Societé Philologique; 10^[1]) (in French), Paris: F. Vieweg, column 6
• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “እምስ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN