Amharic

Definitions: Amharic

Amharic

Adjective

1. Related to or characteristic of or written in Amharic; "the Amharic language".

Noun

1. The dominant and official language of Ethiopia; a semitic language much influenced by the Cushitic language with which Amhara people have been in close contact.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Amharic

Books

• Adefris: An Ethiopian Novel in Amharic (reference)

• Asfaw Amharic Letters Emperor Theodore of Ethiopia (reference)

• Concise Amharic Dictionary: Amharic-English English-Amharic (reference)

• How to Say It: English, Amharic, Italian (reference)

• Lizo's Song Amharic version (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Civil Liberties

Ethiopia

In July several editors of Amharic weeklies were detained briefly for false reporting of a rift between the Prime Minister and his Foreign Minister. (references)

Ethiopia

In May Tamret Zuma, the editor-in-chief of the closed Amharic weekly "Akturut," was detained and charged with defamation in connection with an article alleging mismanagement at a factory and inciting violence for a 1999 article in which a retired general predicted the imminent overthrow of the Government. (references)

Ethiopia

In addition to the private press, there are 5 ruling party coalition papers, in Amharic, Oromifa, and Tigrigna that have a total circulation figure of 110,000. There are 2 government dailies, the English-language Ethiopian Herald (circulation 40,000) and the Amharic Addis Zemen (circulation 50,000), and a government Arabic-language weekly, Al-Alam (circulation 10,000). Three new weeklies began publication during the year: Wegahta, a Tigrigna-language paper allied with the Tigrayan opposition faction of the TPLF; Business Weekly, an English-language business paper; and Ze-Press, an Amharic weekly staffed by editors and reporters from the discontinued Amharic daily Eletawi Addis. (references)

Economic History

Ethiopia

Languages: Amharic (official), Tigrinya, Oromifa, English, Somali. (references)

Ethiopia

Amharic was the language of primary school instruction but has been replaced in many areas by local languages such as Oromifa and Tigrinya. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Beginning with "Amharic": amharic-speaking.

Portuguese

amarique. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: chimar.

-2 letters: acari, chair, charm, chirm, ihram, march, maria, micra.

-3 letters: amah, amia, amir, arch, aria, cham, char, chia, cram, haar, hair, harm, maar, mach, mair, marc, mica, raia, rami, rich.

-4 letters: aah, aha, aim, air, ama, ami, arc, arm, cam, car, chi, ham, hic, him, ich, mac, mar, mir, rah, ram, ria, rim.

-5 letters: aa.

+1 letter: archaism, armchair, chadarim, chairman, charisma, chimaera, drachmai, mariachi.

+2 letters: anarchism, archaisms, armchairs, chairmans, chimaeras, harmonica, mariachis, matriarch.

+3 letters: achromatic, alphameric, amphibrach, amphimacer, anamorphic, anarchisms, chairmaned, chairwoman, charismata, cochairman, harmonicas, machinator, maraschino, matriarchs, matriarchy, monarchial, pharmacies, pharmacist.

+4 letters: achromatism, achromatize, amphibrachs, amphimacers, anachronism, chairmaning, chairmanned, chamberlain, chambermaid, charismatic, machinators, macrophagic, maraschinos, marshalcies, matriarchal, monarchical, pharmacists.

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