dabeela

Afar

Etymology

Borrowed from Amharic ዳቤላ (dabela).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daˈbeːla/ [dʌˈbeːlʌ]
• Hyphenation: da‧bee‧la

Noun

dabéela m (feminine reytá, plural dabelwá f)

1. billy goat

Declension

Declension of dabéela
absolutive	dabéela
predicative	dabéela
subjective	dabeelí
genitive	dabeelí
Postpositioned forms l-case dabéelal k-case dabéelak t-case dabéelat h-case dabéelah

See also

• wadár (“goats”)

References

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “dabeèla”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle; Mohamed Hassan Kamil (August 2013), “Gender, Number and Agreement in Afar (Cushitic language)”, in 43th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics‎, Leiden: Leiden University
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)