# ሖመር
## Ge'ez
### Alternative forms

* ሐሞር (ḥämor), ሐመር (ḥämär), ኆመር (ḫomär)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حُمَر (ḥumar, “tamarind”).

### Noun

ሖመር • (ḥomär) ? (plural አሕመር (ʾäḥmär))
* tamarind (fruit and tree)

#### Usage notes

Dictionary glosses “carob”, “cherry”, “acorn”, and “red fruit”, for any of the forms here, do not apply.

#### Declension

| Number | State | State | Case | Case |
| Number | State | State | nominative/genitive | accusative |
| singular | absolute | absolute | ሖመር (ḥomär) | ሖመረ (ḥomärä) |
| singular | construct | construct | ሖመረ (ḥomärä) | ሖመረ (ḥomärä) |
| singular | With possessive pronouns | 1s | ሖመርየ (ḥomäryä) | ሖመርየ (ḥomäryä) |
| singular | With possessive pronouns | 2ms | ሖመርከ (ḥomärkä) | ሖመረከ (ḥomäräkä) |
| singular | With possessive pronouns | 2fs | ሖመርኪ (ḥomärki) | ሖመረኪ (ḥomäräki) |
| singular | With possessive pronouns | 3ms | ሖመሩ (ḥomäru) | ሖመሮ (ḥomäro) |
| singular | With possessive pronouns | 3fs | ሖመራ (ḥomära) | ሖመራ (ḥomära) |
| singular | With possessive pronouns | 1p | ሖመርነ (ḥomärnä) | ሖመረነ (ḥomäränä) |
| singular | With possessive pronouns | 2mp | ሖመርክሙ (ḥomärkəmu) | ሖመረክሙ (ḥomäräkmu) |
| singular | With possessive pronouns | 2fp | ሖመርክን (ḥomärkən) | ሖመረክን (ḥomäräkn) |
| singular | With possessive pronouns | 3mp | ሖመሮሙ (ḥomäromu) | ሖመሮሙ (ḥomäromu) |
| singular | With possessive pronouns | 3fp | ሖመሮን (ḥomäron) | ሖመሮን (ḥomäron) |
| plural | absolute | absolute | አሕመር (ʾäḥmär) | አሕመረ (ʾäḥmärä) |
| plural | construct | construct | አሕመረ (ʾäḥmärä) | አሕመረ (ʾäḥmärä) |
| plural | With possessive pronouns | 1s | አሕመርየ (ʾäḥmäryä) | አሕመርየ (ʾäḥmäryä) |
| plural | With possessive pronouns | 2ms | አሕመሪከ (ʾäḥmärikä) | አሕመሪከ (ʾäḥmärikä) |
| plural | With possessive pronouns | 2fs | አሕመርኪ (ʾäḥmärki); አሕመሪኪ (ʾäḥmäriki) | አሕመርኪ (ʾäḥmärki); አሕመሪኪ (ʾäḥmäriki) |
| plural | With possessive pronouns | 3ms | አሕመሪሁ (ʾäḥmärihu) | አሕመሪሁ (ʾäḥmärihu) |
| plural | With possessive pronouns | 3fs | አሕመሪሃ (ʾäḥmäriha) | አሕመሪሃ (ʾäḥmäriha) |
| plural | With possessive pronouns | 1p | አሕመሪነ (ʾäḥmärinä) | አሕመሪነ (ʾäḥmärinä) |
| plural | With possessive pronouns | 2mp | አሕመሪክሙ (ʾäḥmärikmu) | አሕመሪክሙ (ʾäḥmärikmu) |
| plural | With possessive pronouns | 2fp | አሕመሪክን (ʾäḥmärikn) | አሕመሪክን (ʾäḥmärikn) |
| plural | With possessive pronouns | 3mp | አሕመሪሆሙ (ʾäḥmärihomu) | አሕመሪሆሙ (ʾäḥmärihomu) |
| plural | With possessive pronouns | 3fp | አሕመሪሆን (ʾäḥmärihon) | አሕመሪሆን (ʾäḥmärihon) |

### References

* Bulakh, Maria (2016) “Was There a Color Term *ḥmr ‘to be red’ in Proto-Semitic?”, in Babel und Bibel 9. Proceedings of the 6th Biennial Meeting of the International Association for Comparative Semitics and Other Studies, Penn State University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 6–7
* Dillmann, August (1865) “ሐመር”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 76
* Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 234
* “ሐመር”, in Ancient Ethiopic TraCES Corpus (of Beta maṣāḥǝft), Hamburg, 2014–2019

## Tigre
### Alternative forms

* ኆመር (ḫomär)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حُمَر (ḥumar, “tamarind”).

### Noun

ሖመር • (ḥomär)
* tamarind (fruit and tree)

### References

* Bulakh, Maria (2016) “Was There a Color Term *ḥmr ‘to be red’ in Proto-Semitic?”, in Babel und Bibel 9. Proceedings of the 6th Biennial Meeting of the International Association for Comparative Semitics and Other Studies, Penn State University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 6–7
* Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ሖመር”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)‎, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 60b

## Tigrinya
### Alternative forms

* ሕሞር (ḥəmor), ሑሞር (ḥumor), ሕምር (ḥəmər), ሃመር (hamär), ሆመር (homär), ህሞር (həmor)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حُمَر (ḥumar, “tamarind”).

### Noun

ሖመር • (ḥomär)
* tamarind (fruit and tree)

### References

* Bulakh, Maria (2016) “Was There a Color Term *ḥmr ‘to be red’ in Proto-Semitic?”, in Babel und Bibel 9. Proceedings of the 6th Biennial Meeting of the International Association for Comparative Semitics and Other Studies, Penn State University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 6–7
* Schweinfurth, Georg August (1893) Abyssinische Pflanzennamen: eine alphabetische Aufzählung von Namen einheimischer Gewächse in Tigrinja sowie in anderen semitischen und hamitischen Sprachen von Abyssinien, unter Beifügung der botanischen Artbezeichnung (Abhandlungen der königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin / Sitzungsberichte St. XXXIII. S. 647) (in German), Berlin: Verlag der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Commission bei Georg Reimer, page 35