urru

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈurːu/ [ˈʔʊrːʊ]
• Hyphenation: ur‧ru

Noun

úrru m (singulative áwka m or awká f, plural urritté f or urruuteetá f)

1. (collective) children

Declension

Declension of úrru
absolutive	úrru
predicative	úrru
subjective	urrí
genitive	urrí
Postpositioned forms l-case úrrul k-case úrruk t-case úrrut h-case úrruh

Derived terms

• urriiná

See also

• xayló (“children, offspring”)

References

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “ùrru”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
• 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