(a.) Of or pertaining to Amhara, a division of Abyssinia; as, the Amharic language is closely allied to the Ethiopic.
(n.) The Amharic language (now the chief language of Abyssinia).
Example Sentences:
(1) With nearly 27 million people, Oromia is the most populated of the country’s federal states and has its own language, Oromo, which is distinct from Ethiopia’s official Amharic language.
(2) Speaking Amharic through an interpreter, she recalled: "If a man migrates alone to the Middle East, he will cheat on you.
(3) State-run radio broadcast a warning in Amharic to Ethiopians not to stage any additional protests.
(4) Ninety-five per cent of those examined had bilateral blindness, 12% did not know how they had become blind and, of those who provided information on how they became blind, 21% knew that they were born blind, 30% implicated measles as being responsible, and 13% implicated 'mitch' which is an Amharic term used to describe a very wide range of nonspecific and vague illnesses of which measles probably constitutes a significant proportion.
(5) The teenage mother was attending a discussion club for child brides called Meserete Hiwot (pdf), or "base of life" in Amharic.
(6) "We're prepared to make sacrifices for better living standards and more energy," says Genet Getachew, an Amharic teacher.
(7) (Amharic name Dingetegna), crude extracts as well as purified substances of this plant were tested for their antipyretic and analgesic properties.