(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.
Ethiopian
Definition:
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Ethiopia; also, in a general sense, a negro or black man.
(a.) Alt. of Ethiopic
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that BEC is the major infectious cause of neonatal calf diarrhoea in the Ethiopian dairy herds studied with RV and K99 ETEC also contributing to morbidity, either alone or as mixed infections.
(2) On Aswan, the lyre is represented by the Sudanese masenkop, Ugandan adungu, and Egyptian simsimiya and tamboura, while the spike fiddle manifests as the Ethiopian masenko and Ugandan endingidi.
(3) The clinical features of 3 Ethiopian patients presenting with the complete syndrome of testicular feminization are described.
(4) 107 Consecutive patients with rheumatic valvular heart disease (41 males, 66 females, average age 24.2 years) being followed at an Ethiopian cardiology referral clinic were examined and questioned about their experience of hemoptysis.
(5) The home secretary, Theresa May , has defied her own expert advisers and banned qat, a mild herbal stimulant that is traditionally used by Britain's Somali, Yemeni and Ethiopian communities.
(6) Uber drivers are employees not contractors, California rules Read more Like many Ethiopian immigrants in San Diego , Sahilu gravitated towards driving a cab because he didn’t speak much English and couldn’t get recognition for his educational qualifications – in his case, a chemistry degree.
(7) In the course of the ten-year period 1979-1988 the authors subjected to psychiatric examination or hospitalized 52 Ethiopian university students.
(8) A spokesman said the agency was aware of allegations of abuses and would raise any concerns at the highest levels of the Ethiopian government.
(9) Of the 17 Ethiopians, seven were below the age of 50 years and five died giving a mortality rate of 29.4%.
(10) Those living in apartments dispersed among the general population suffered less from psychopathological symptoms than those living in buildings largely occupied by other Ethiopian immigrants.
(11) The war has dragged on for two years but Ethiopian forces made big battlefield gains in the past two weeks, driving across the border deep into western Eritrea and then attacking along the Zalambessa front on Tuesday.
(12) Over a period of about 12 months a large number of Ethiopian Jews emigrated to Israel under very stressful conditions.
(13) The subjects included 57 prostitutes, 79 sexually transmitted disease (STD) patients, and 1,133 others, including outpatient and hospitalized patients with leprosy, tuberculosis, other infectious diseases, individuals from rehabilitation camps and secondary schools, and Ethiopian immigrants.
(14) Ethiopian troops moved into Somalia in November but will not come under Amisom and are expected to withdraw eventually.
(15) Working with the team as an interpreter is Ethiopian Lemlem Tesfahun, 31, who recalled how Lucano drove her to Riace a decade ago from an immigrant holding centre in Calabria.
(16) The third Ethiopian in the race, Gebregziabher Gebremariam, then hit the front.
(17) The main 10-year incidence rate per 10,000 Israeli Jews was 0.28; for the Negev Beduins it was 1.52; for the Ethiopian Jews, 91.9.
(18) "Hiding behind an abusive anti-terrorism law to prosecute bloggers and journalists for doing their jobs is an affront to the Ethiopian constitution," she said.
(19) The values obtained in this study are offered to serve as normal reference for the interpretation of thyroid function results in Ethiopian patients.
(20) The Ethiopian government claims credit for the growth but is criticised as authoritarian by human rights groups; there is only one opposition MP.