ጉማሬ

Amharic

ጉማሬ።

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡumarːe/
• Hyphenation: ጉ‧ማ‧ሬ

Noun

ጉማሬ • (gumarre) m or f by sense (plural ጉማሬዎች (gumarrewoč))

1. hippopotamus

Declension

Definiteness forms of ጉማሬ (gumarre)

	Masculine	Feminine
Indefinite	ጉማሬ (gumarre)
Definite subject	ጉማሬው (gumarrew)	ጉማሬዋ (gumarrewa) ጉማሬይቱ (gumarreyətu) ጉማሬይቷ (gumarreyətʷa)
Definite object	ጉማሬውን (gumarrewən)	ጉማሬዋን (gumarrewan) ጉማሬይቱን (gumarreyətun) ጉማሬይቷን (gumarreyətʷan)
General object	ጉማሬን (gumarren)

Possessive forms of ጉማሬ (gumarre)

		Singular	Plural	Formal
First person		ጉማሬዬ (gumarreye)	ጉማሬያችን (gumarreyaččən)	—
Second person	m	ጉማሬህ (gumarreh)	ጉማሬያችሁ (gumarreyaččəhu)	ጉማሬዎ (gumarrewo)
	f	ጉማሬሽ (gumarreš)
Third person	m	ጉማሬው (gumarrew)	ጉማሬያቸው (gumarreyaččäw)
	f	ጉማሬዋ (gumarrewa)

References

• Wolf Leslau (1996) “hippopotamus”, in Concise Amharic Dictionary, University of California Press, →ISBN