ብቸኛ

Amharic

Etymology

From ብቻ (bəča, “only, sole, alone”) +‎ -ኛ (-ña, adjectival suffix).

Adjective

ብቸኛ • (bəčäña)

1. Alone, solitary, lonely, solitudinous, lonesome.

Declension

Definiteness forms of ብቸኛ

	masculine	feminine
indefinite	ብቸኛ (bəčäña)
definite subject	ብቸኛው (bəčäñaw)	ብቸኛዋ (bəčäñawa) ብቸኛይቱ (bəčäñayətu) ብቸኛይቷ (bəčäñayətʷa)
definite object	ብቸኛውን (bəčäñawən)	ብቸኛዋን (bəčäñawan) ብቸኛይቱን (bəčäñayətun) ብቸኛይቷን (bəčäñayətʷan)
general object	ብቸኛን (bəčäñan)

Derived terms

• ብቸኛነት (bəčäñanät)

References

• “ብቸኛ”, in Amharic Dictionary‎^[1] (overall work in English), Amharic Teacher