Amharic
/amˈharɪk
/noun [mass noun]
The official language of Ethiopia, a Semitic language descended from Ge’ez and spoken by about 9 million people.The dates on the tombs follow the Ethiopian calendar which is seven years behind the Gregorian; the inscriptions are written in Amharic, Ethiopia's official language....
- Apart from working on these languages, the team has also put in place a system for translation from English to Amharic, an Ethiopian language.
- Many of the groups are bilingual, and because of the legacy of Ethiopian domination over Eritrea, many Eritreans also speak Amharic, the Ethiopian administrative language.
adjective
Relating to Amharic.Most Eritreans - Muslim, Christian and animist - rejected absorption into Haile Selassie's Amharic empire and, later, the Marxist terror state of the Dergue, which overthrew him....
- When differentiating between ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ art, he uses the Amharic terms bahelawi and zemenawi.
- On the two open pages, in crude script, is the Amharic caption, ‘The nun at her prayers,’ followed by the date ‘1992 AM,’ i.e., the Ethiopian Year of Mercy 1992.
