ራስ

Amharic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *raʔš-. Cognates include Ge'ez ርእስ (rəʾs) and Arabic رَأْس (raʔs).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɾas/
  • Hyphenation: ራ‧ስ

Noun

ራስ • (ras) m

  1. head
  2. top, summit
  3. (obsolete) ras (leader ranking directly below a king)
  4. When possessed, used to form reflexive pronouns; -self, -selves
    እሱ ራሱ. ― ʾəssu rasu ― He himself. (literally, “He his head.”)

Declension
Definiteness forms of ራስ (ras)
Masculine
Indefinite ራስ (ras)
Definite subject ራሱ (rasu)
Definite object ራሱን (rasun)
General object ራስን (rasən)
Possessive forms of ራስ (ras)
Singular Plural Formal
First person ራሴ (rase) ራሳችን (rasaččən) —
Second person m ራስህ (rasəh) ራሳችሁ (rasaččəhu) ራስዎ (raswo)
f ራስሽ (rasəš)
Third person m ራሱ (rasu) ራሳቸው (rasaččäw)
f ራሷ (rasʷa)

Descendants
  • → English: ras

References
  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ራስ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
  • Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 20
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