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Ethiopia

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See also:EthiópiaandEþíópía

English

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Ethiopia
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Etymology

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FromLatinAethiopia, fromAncient GreekΑἰθιοπία(Aithiopía), fromΑἰθίοψ(Aithíops), of Proto-Hellenic origin. Displaced nativeOld EnglishSiġelhearwena land(literally“land of the sun worshippers”).

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Ethiopia

  2. Acountry inEast Africa.
    • 1991, Tesfaye Tesemma, “Improvement of indigenous durum wheat landraces in Ethiopia” inPlant Genetic Resources of Ethiopia,288:
      Wheat has been and continues to be one of the most important cereal crops inEthiopia in terms of both area under cultivation and production.
    • 2024 July 23, Nimi Princewill, Mek Tekeste and Louis Mian, “More than 200 dead in southern Ethiopia landslides”, inCNN‎[1]:
      The death toll from two landslides in a remote region of southernEthiopia on Monday has risen to 229, according to local authorities.
    1. The Ethiopian Empire, from c. 1270 to 1974;Abyssinia.
    2. Italian Ethiopia, from 1936 to 1941.
    3. Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia, from 1974 to 1987;Derg.
    4. TheFederal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, since 1987.
  4. (historical)Sub-Saharan Africa, especially the parts south of Egypt and along and east of the Nile.
    • 1553, Richard Eden,A treatyse of the newe India,unnumbered:
      The Diamande is engendred in the mynes of India,Ethiopia, Arabia, Macedonia, and Cyprus, and in the golde mynes of the same countries.
    • 1858, George Leighton Ditson,The Para Papers on France, Egypt and Ethiopia,page243:
      The Greeks denominated this region of the country, undefined in its limits,Ethiopia or the ‘land of black faces’; the people we call Nubians, are by the Arabs comprehended under the general name of Baraba, and if you enter the bureau of a merchant, or the mansion of a wealthy personage at Cairo or Alexandria, you will be pretty sure to find the atendants to be Berberees.

Hypernyms

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Descendants

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Translations

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country in Eastern Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa (historical)

See also

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countries in Africa (appendix)edit

Dinka

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Etymology

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FromEnglishEthiopia.

Proper noun

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Ethiopia

  1. Ethiopia (acountry inEast Africa)

Old English

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Proper noun

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Ethiopia m

  1. Ethiopia
    • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
      Đes ylca apostol and godspellere becōm, þurh Godes sande, æfter Drihtnes upstiġe tō heofenum, tōEthiopian, þæt is ðǣra Silhearwena rīce, and ġemette þǣr tweġen drȳmen, Zoroes and Arfaxað, dweliende þæt folc mid heora drȳcræfte.
      After the Lord's ascension to heaven, this same apostle and evangelist arrived inEthiopia, that is,Silhearwena rice, through God's sending, where he met two sorcerers, Zoroes and Arfaxath, who were leading the people astray with their sorcery.

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nominativeEthiopia—
accusativeEthiopian—
genitiveEthiopian—
dativeEthiopian—

Portuguese

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Proper noun

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Ethiopia f

  1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) ofEtiópia

Swahili

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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Ethiopia

  1. Ethiopia (acountry inEast Africa)

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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See also

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countries in Africa:nchi zaAfrika (appendix)edit

Welsh

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Proper noun

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Ethiopia f

  1. Ethiopia (acountry inEast Africa)
  2. (historical)Ethiopia(sub-Saharan Africa, especially the parts south of Egypt and along and east of the Nile)

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See also

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countries in Africa:gwledyddAffrica (appendix)edit

Further reading

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  • Griffiths, Bruce; Glyn Jones, Dafydd (1995), “Ethiopia”, inGeiriadur yr Academi: The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary‎[2], Cardiff: University of Wales Press,→ISBN
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