حبشي

Arabic

Etymology

Relative adjective (nisba) composed of اَلْحَبَشَة (al-ḥabaša, “Ethiopia, the Ethiopians”) +‎ ـِيّ (-iyy).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ħa.ba.ʃijj/

Noun

حَبَشِيّ • (ḥabašiyy) m

Ethiopian

Declension

Declension of noun **حَبَشِيّ** (ḥabašiyy)
singular	basic singular triptote
singular	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	حَبَشِي ḥabašī	الْحَبَشِي al-ḥabašī	حَبَشِي ḥabašī
nominative	حَبَشِيٌّ ḥabašiyyun	الْحَبَشِيُّ al-ḥabašiyyu	حَبَشِيُّ ḥabašiyyu
accusative	حَبَشِيًّا ḥabašiyyan	الْحَبَشِيَّ al-ḥabašiyya	حَبَشِيَّ ḥabašiyya
genitive	حَبَشِيٍّ ḥabašiyyin	الْحَبَشِيِّ al-ḥabašiyyi	حَبَشِيِّ ḥabašiyyi

Descendants

→ Ge'ez: ሐበሺ (ḥäbäši), ኀበሺ (ḫäbäši)
→ Classical Persian: حبشی (habašī)
- → Middle Bengali: হাবেসি (hābeśi)
  - Bengali: হাবশি (habośi)
- → Gujarati: હબસી (habsī)
- → Hindustani:
  Hindi: हब्शी (habśī)
  
  Urdu: حبشی (habśī)
- → Kashmiri: हब्शी (habśī)
- → Marathi: हबशी (habśī)
- → Nepali: हब्सी (habsī)
- → Odia: ହାବସୀ (hābasi), ହାପସୀ (hāpasi)
- → Pashto: حبشي
- → Punjabi:
  Gurmukhi script: ਹਬਸ਼ੀ (habśī)
  
  Shahmukhi script: حبشی (habśī)
→ Renaissance Latin: Abyssīnī

Further reading

Freytag, Georg (1830) “حبشي”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 335a
Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “حبشي”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “حبشي”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 501c.
Wehr, Hans (1960) “حبشي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz