Amharic

Examples

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• The title of this "bamboo strip painting" derives from the well-known genre of Amharic poetry that conveys both an overt and a richer hidden meaning.

  Academic text (1997)

• The young authors combined colloquial English, Amharic, and Spanish to spin a tale of innuendo and mistaken identity.

  Academic text (2012)

• The title is derived from the Ethiopian Amharic script.

  Bob Marley: One Love (2024)

• Initially, B.J., an Amharic-speaking boy, protested this decision.

  Academic text (2012)

• The Ethiopian state has been dominated by one ethnic group, the Amharic-speaking Christians, with Shoa province and its surrounding region as their center.

  Academic text (1991)

• Sara, a seventh grader whose family was from Ethiopia, sought help from her sister, creating a draft with the Amharic handwritten above the English.

  Academic text (2012)

• The "hidden" meaning of the composition is alluded to in the Amharic inscription found in the lower half of the painting, translated roughly as "Don't be a light in a pot."

  Academic text (1997)

• However, the painter added references to Ethiopian culture through the tricolor border of red, yellow, and green (the colors of the Ethiopian flag) and Amharic writing across the bottom.

  Academic text (2009)

• Did I really remember that the VW van that brought my brother home from boarding school in first grade was carrying a crate of Lyle's Golden Syrup and five boxes of Amharic New Testaments?

  Academic text (2009)

• On the two open pages, in crude script, is the Amharic caption, "The nun at her prayers," followed by the date "1992 AM," i.e., the Ethiopian Year of Mercy 1992.

  Academic text (2004)

Compounds

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Amharic language

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The official language of Ethiopia that uses its own script

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