Amharic

[ am-har-ik, ahm-hahr- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Amharic

/ æmˈhærɪk /

the official language of Ethiopia, belonging to the SE Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family

Origin of Amharic¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; Amhar(a) + -ic

Asmara, an Amharic word signifying “good pasture place,” is a town of considerable antiquity.

The Amharic language, soft and musical in itself, derived new melody from the lips of Mr. M——.

I went up to him, and he made me a bow and said something in Amharic, which it is needless to say I did not understand.

The chief spoken language is the Amharic; in it some books have been published.

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