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Ethiopian

Ethiopian

73 3.7
Relating to Ethiopia, its people, or their languages
  • adjective
  • /ˌiːθiˈoʊpiən/
translation icon : etíope
  • She loves Ethiopian cuisine, especially the spicy lentils served with injera.
  • Ethiopian army
  • Ethiopian government
  • Ethiopian troops in Eritrea

The first, the the Old Testament is, is the Torah from the Ethiopian Torah.

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Examples

  • Then, the plan for conflict resolution and development has to be sold to the Ethiopian people.

    Academic text (1991)
  • The Ethiopian cook, now that would be funny.

  • Will it be a cup of Ethiopian coffee?

  • And we discovered this new Ethiopian restaurant.

  • And we're sitting, and we're at this Ethiopian restaurant that she wanted to go to.

  • That was because the Ethiopian government took a very active role in promoting development.

  • We could go to some fancy Ethiopian place with native dress.

  • The causes of the crisis of the Ethiopian state were due to both external and internal factors.

    Academic text (1991)
  • So we're at this Ethiopian restaurant here in Cape Town because we're not going to be able to make it to Ethiopia this trip.

  • The flow variations of the Ethiopian tributaries differ between the wet and dry seasons.

    Academic text (2008)

Synonyms

Ethiopic
vsEthiopian
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Relating to ancient Ethiopia, its people, languages, or writing

is a modern, general term for the country and its current affairs

Compounds

A large evergreen plant with big leaves whose fruit is not eaten but whose young flower shoots people eat

A traditional ritual in Ethiopia where people prepare, serve, and drink coffee together

A shared meal of Ethiopian dishes like injera and spiced stews

Surface Forms

Ethiopian positive

Morphology

Ethiopian = Ethiopia (transparent) = Ethiopia + an

Formed by adding the productive demonym/adjectival suffix '-an' to the country name 'Ethiopia', so the relation is direct and obvious to learners.

Etymology

Ethiopian comes from an old Greek name Aithiopia, formed from the parts aitho 'I burn' and ops 'face' that the Greeks used for the sunny lands to the south. So today Ethiopian simply means 'of or from Ethiopia'.