አረሰ

Amharic

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ḥaraṯ-. Cognates include Arabic حَرَثَ (ḥaraṯa) and Hebrew חָרַשׁ.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈ(ʔ)arːəsə/
Hyphenation: አ‧ረ‧ሰ

Verb

አረሰ • (ʾarräsä)

(transitive) to plough, to farm
(transitive) to take care of one's parturient wife

Derived terms

(instrumental noun): ማረሻ (maräša)

References

Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “አረሰ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 13

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