ንጉሥ

Amharic

ንጉሥ(2)።

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ge'ez ንጉሥ (nəguś). Akin to Tigrinya ንጉስ (nəgus).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈnɨɡus/
Hyphenation: ን‧ጉሥ

Noun

ንጉሥ • (nəguś) m (plural ንጉሦች (nəguśočč) or ነገሥት (nägäst) or ነገሥታት (nägästat))

king, negus
(chess) king

Declension

Definiteness forms of ንጉሥ (nəguś)

	Masculine
Indefinite	ንጉሥ (nəguś)
Definite subject	ንጉሡ (nəguśu)
Definite object	ንጉሡን (nəguśun)
General object	ንጉሥን (nəguśən)

Possessive forms of ንጉሥ (nəguś)

		Singular	Plural	Formal
First person		ንጉሤ (nəguśe)	ንጉሣችን (nəguśaččən)	—
Second person	m	ንጉሥህ (nəguśəh)	ንጉሣችሁ (nəguśaččəhu)	ንጉሥዎ (nəguśwo)
Second person	f	ንጉሥሽ (nəguśəš)	ንጉሣችሁ (nəguśaččəhu)	ንጉሥዎ (nəguśwo)
Third person	m	ንጉሡ (nəguśu)	ንጉሣቸው (nəguśaččäw)
Third person	f	ንጉሧ (nəguśʷa)	ንጉሣቸው (nəguśaččäw)

Coordinate terms

ንግሥት (nəgəśt, “queen”)

Derived terms

ንግሥት (nəgəśt)

Descendants

→ English: negus
→ French: négus
→ German: Negus
→ Italian: negus
→ Polish: negus
→ Sidamo: nugusa

References

Thomas Leiper Kane (1990), “ንጉሥ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 7

Ge'ez

Etymology

From the verb ነግሠ (nägśä, “rule”).

Noun

ንጉሥ • (nəguś) (plural ነገሥት/ነገሥታት)

king
duke, prince, prefect, satrap, tyrant, emperor

Descendants

→ Amharic: ንጉሥ (nəguś)
→ Tigrinya: ንጉስ (nəgus), ንጉሥ (nəguś)

References

Dillmann, August (1865), “ንጉሥ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel

Tigrinya

Noun

ንጉሥ • (nəguś)

Ethiopia spelling of ንጉስ (nəgus)

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