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Amharic, a. and n.|æmˈhærɪk|
[f. Amhara, name of a central province of Ethiopia + -ic.]
Of or pertaining to Amhara, its people, or its language; the language itself, the principal language of modern Ethiopia.
[1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Hist. Afr. i. 8 One kinde of language, called by them Aquel Amarig, that is, the noble toong.] 1813Q. Rev. Oct. 258. 1835 West of England Jrnl. ii. 94 The Amharic language, which at first was supposed a dialect of the Gheez, and thus to be Shemitic, is now alleged..to be of African pedigree. 1836N. Wiseman Connect. Sci. & Revealed Relig. ii. 85 Another example may be drawn from the Amharic. 1907Camb. Univ. Press Bull. Jan. 27 Every Amharic word is phonetically expressed in Roman letters as well as given in the Amharic character. 1923Blackw. Mag. Aug. 245/2 Ancient Ge‘z, the language of the Abyssinian Church and parent of the modern Amharic. 1935Discovery Nov. 315/2 It is to be hoped that the fighting [in Ethiopia] will not lead to the destruction of existing monuments of the old Amharic civilisation. 1959Times 29 June 11/6 The domination of a Christian Amharic minority over a number of other tribes. |