ውሻ
Appearance
Amharic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- ዉሻ (wušša)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Sidamo woshsha (“dogs”), reanalysed as a singular.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ውሻ • (wəšša) m or f by sense (plural ውሾች (wəššočč) or ውሻዎች (wəššawočč))
- dog
- fourth stage of drunkenness, characterised by people howling like a dog
Declension
[edit]Definiteness forms of ውሻ (wəšša)
Possessive forms of ውሻ (wəšša)
References
[edit]- Isenberg, Karl Wilhelm (1841) Dictionary of the Amharic language. Amharic and English[1], London: The Church Missionary Society, page 148
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ውሻ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN