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Amhara
[ ahm-hahr-uh ]
noun
- Also called Amhara Region. Official_name Amhara National Regional State. a regional state in northern Ethiopia: site of Lake Tana. : Bahir Dah.
- a region of the former Ethiopian Empire comprising several provinces, large portions of which are part of the modern Amhara Region.
- a member of an Amharic-speaking, traditionally agricultural, predominantly Christian people of central Ethiopia, descended from Cushitic peoples already living in the region and Semitic peoples who arrived in the sixth century b.c.
adjective
- of or relating to the Amhara.
Amhara
/ æmˈhɑːrə /
noun
- a region of NW Ethiopia: formerly a kingdom
- an inhabitant of the former kingdom of Amhara
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Amhara1
First recorded in 1830–40; from Amharic Amara, a self-designation, from Geez ʾAmḥārā, the name of a historical province of central and northwestern Ethiopia
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Example Sentences
He now became sovereign of Tigre and Amhara, the principal provinces of Abyssinia.
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Tigre and Amhara constitute one kingdom, and Shoa another; they are all divided into a great number of smaller provinces.
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