በቅሎ

Amharic

በቅሎ።

Alternative forms

  • በቍሎ (bäḳʷlo) Old Amharic by-form, plural also አባቍልት (ʾäbaḳʷələt)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ge'ez በቅል (bäḳl).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbəkʼlo/
  • Hyphenation: በቅ‧ሎ

Noun

በቅሎ (bäḳlo) m or f (plural በቅሎች (bäḳločč) or በቅሎዎች (bäḳlowočč))

  1. mule

Usage notes

  • The gender of በቅሎ depends on the natural gender of the referent. As such, it may be translated as either he-mule (masculine) or she-mule (feminine) depending on the context. If the natural gender is unknown, the feminine gender is used.

Declension

References

  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990), “በቅሎ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
  • Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 12
  • Enno Littmann, editor (1943), “Altamharisches Glossar. Der Wortschatz in den „Canzoni Geez-Amariña“”, in Rivista degli studi orientali, volume 40, page 489a

Argobba

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ge'ez በቅል (bäḳl).

Noun

በቅሎ (bäḳlo) m or f

  1. mule

References

  • Leslau, Wolf (1997) Ethiopic Documents: Argobba: Grammar and Dictionary (Aethiopistische Forschungen; 47), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 195
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