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ድመት

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Amharic

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ድመት።

Etymology

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Local Ethiopian Semitic Lockwort. Cognates include Ge'ez ድመት (dəmmät) and presumable Ethiopian borrowing Arabic دِمّ (dimm), the similarity to Standard Babylonian 𒁺𒈠𒈬 (du-ma-mu /⁠dumāmu⁠/, leopard) being a coincidence.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdɨmːət/
  • Hyphenation: ድ‧መት

Noun

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ድመት (dəmmätm or f by sense

  1. cat

Declension

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References

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