ባል

Amharic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Semitic *baʕl-. Cognates include Ge'ez በዓል (bäʿal) and Tigrinya በዓል (bäʿal).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbal/
• Hyphenation: ባል

Noun

ባል • (bal) m

1. husband

   Coordinate term: ሚስት (mist, “wife”)

2. master
3. festival

Declension

Definiteness forms of ባል

	masculine
indefinite	ባል (bal)
definite subject	ባሉ (balu)
definite object	ባሉን (balun)
general object	ባልን (balən)

Possessive forms of ባል (bal)

		singular	plural	formal
first person		ባሌ (bale)	ባላችን (balaččən)	—
second person	m	ባልህ (baləh)	ባላችሁ (balaččəhu)	ባልዎ (balwo)
	f	ባልሽ (baləš)
third person	m	ባሉ (balu)	ባላቸው (balaččäw)
	f	ባሏ (balʷa)

References

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