* date unknown-Abu Rumi, Ethiopian translator of the Bible into Amharic ( born c. 1750 )

It is also the view expressed in the modern canonical Amharic Ethiopian Orthodox Bible.

This also is the view of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, supported by their own Ge ' ez manuscripts and Amharic translation of the Haile Selassie Bible — where the canonical books of 1 Enoch and Jubilees differ from western academic editions.

He revised Abu Rumi's Bible translations into Amharic for BFBS.

Category: Translators of the Bible into Amharic

Other widely spoken Afroasiatic languages are Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia, with 18 million native speakers ; Somali, spoken by around 19 million people in Greater Somalia ; and Hausa, the dominant language of northern Nigeria and southern Niger, spoken by 18. 5 million people and used as a lingua franca in large parts of the Sahel, with some 25 million speakers in total.

Examples of present-day abjads are the Arabic and Hebrew scripts ; true alphabets include Latin, Cyrillic, and Korean hangul ; and abugidas are used to write Tigrinya, Amharic, Hindi, and Thai.

Meat such as beef ( siga, Ge ' ez: ሥጋ śigā ), chicken ( Amharic: ዶሮ dōrō, Tigrinya: ደርሆ derhō ), fish ( Amharic: asa ), goat or lamb ( Amharic: beg, Tigrinya በግዕ beggiʻ ) is added ; legumes such as split peas ( Amharic: ክክ kik, Tigrinya: ክኪ kikkī ) or lentils ( Amharic: ምስር misir, Tigrinya: ብርስን birsin ); or vegetables such as potato ( dinich, Amharic: ድንች dinič, Tigrinya ድንሽ diniš ), carrots and chard ( Tigrinya: costa ) are also used in wat.

However, in Ethiopia Amharic ( the main lingua franca of modern Ethiopia ) or other local languages, and in Eritrea and Tigray Region in Ethiopia, Tigrinya may be used for sermons.

* In Amharic, the term " Selam " is used in place of " Tadias " which is the equivalent of " What's up ".

In Ethiopia, niter kibbeh ( Amharic: ንጥር ቅቤ niṭer ḳibē ) is made and used in much the same way as ghee, but with spices added during the process that result in a distinctive taste.

The word for fenugreek in Amharic is abesh ( or abish ), and the seed is used in Ethiopia as a natural herbal medicine in the treatment of diabetes.

Some Vah letters resemble certain letters from Ge ' ez alphabet of Ethiopia used to write Amharic, the national language, N ' ko alphabet in Guinea, and Armenian alphabet.

* Ge ' ez, the predecessor of many Ethiopian Semitic languages ( e. g. Amharic, Tigrinya, Tigre ) used as a liturgical language by Ethiopian Jews and by Ethiopian Christians ( in both the Orthodox Tewahedo and the Catholic churches ).

In the Afar Region of Ethiopia, Afar is partially used in some of the few schools, while Amharic is the region's working language.

P ' ent ' ay ( from, also transliterated as Pentay or Pente ) is an Amharic language term for a Christian of Protestant denomination, widely used in modern Ethiopia and among Ethiopians living abroad.

The Ethiopian calendar ( Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ዘመን አቆጣጠር ), also called the Ge ' ez calendar, is the principal calendar used in Ethiopia and also serves as the liturgical calendar for Christians in Eritrea belonging to the Eritrean Orthodox Church, Eastern Catholic Church and Lutheran Evangelical Church of Eritrea.

The more common form, " Ras Dashen " is a corruption of its Amharic name, " Ras Dejen ", used by the system of the Ethiopian Mapping Authority ( EMA ) which means " the general who fights in front of the Emperor ".

The Arabic word ‘ arif has also been borrowed into the vernacular of Amharic and other Ethiopian languages, but with a change of meaning: it is used as a slang term corresponding to English " cool " or " neat ".

In Ethiopia it evolved later into the Ge ' ez alphabet, which, with added symbols throughout the centuries, has been used to write Amharic, Tigrinya and Tigre, as well as other languages ( including various Semitic, Cushitic, and Nilo-Saharan languages ).

The Coalition for Unity and Democracy (, commonly referred to by its English abbreviation CUD, or occasionally CDU ; its Amharic abbreviation, used in Ethiopia, is Qinijit, in English writing often referred to as Kinijit ) is a coalition of four existing political parties of Ethiopia which combined to compete for seats in the Ethiopian General Elections held on May 15, 2005.

Abun ( in Europe erroneously known as Abuna, which is the status constructus form used when a name follows: Ge ' ez አቡነ ’ abuna / abune, ' our father '; Amharic and Tigrinya ) is the honorific title used for any bishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church as well as of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church.

The Italians expected disaffected potentates like Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, Ras Mengesha Yohannes, and the Sultan of Aussa to join them ; instead, all of the ethnic Tigrayan or Amharic peoples flocked to the Emperor Menelik's side in a display of both nationalism and anti-Italian feeling, while other peoples of dubious loyalty ( e. g. the Sultan of Aussa ), were watched by Imperial garrisons.

During the Zemene Mesafint or " Age of Princes " of Ethiopia, Emperors became figureheads, controlled by warlords like Ras Mikael Sehul of Tigray, and by the Oromo Yejju dynasty, which later led to 17th century Oromo rule of Gondar, changing the language of the court from Amharic to Afaan Oromo.

In Africa, the hippo is known by various names, including Seekoei ( Afrikaans ), Mvuvu ( Venda ), Kubu ( Lozi ) and Mvubu ( Xhosa, Siswati and Zulu ) in the south ; Kiboko ( Swahili ), Ensherre ( Nkore ), Tomondo ( Turu ), Nvubu ( Luganda ), Ifuru ( Luhya ), Emiria ( Ateso ), Magawit ( Sebei ), Kibei ( Kalenjin ) and Olmakau ( Maasai ) in the Great Lakes region ; and Gumarre ( Amharic ) and Jeer ( Somali ) in the Horn.

Tigrinya is the third most spoken language in Ethiopia, after Amharic and Oromo, and by far the most spoken in Eritrea ( see Demographics of Eritrea ).

Rastafarians use the terms " Jah " and " Jah Jah " as a term for God and / or Haile Selassie I who is also known by the Amharic title Janhoy ( literally " Your Majesty ").

Taddesse Tamrat has speculated that one effect of Gudit's otherwise ephemeral rule, might be the pockets of various languages related to Amharic scattered across southwestern Ethiopia ( e. g. Argobba, Gurage and Gafat ), which could have been Axumite military settlements isolated by her conquests and later Sidamo migrations.

Amharic is interpreted by many as having an ejective fricative, at least historically, but it has been also analyzed as now being a sociolinguistic variant ( Takkele Taddese 1992 ).

English, Italian and Amharic are understood by a considerable amount of the population and also are spoken especially by residents of the capital, Asmara.

Oromiffa was spoken as a first language by 81. 38 % and Amharic was spoken by 17. 76 %; the remaining 0. 86 % spoke all other primary languages reported.

Oromiffa was spoken as a first language by 80. 01 %, and 19. 19 % spoke Amharic ; the remaining 0. 8 % spoke all other primary languages reported.

As they shift from hunting and gathering to more settled agriculture and to working as laborers, many of its speakers are shifting to other neighboring languages, in particular Majang language and Shekkacho ( Mocha ); its vocabulary is heavily influenced by loanwords from both these languages, particularly Majangir, as well as Amharic.

Amharic was spoken as a first language by 94. 57 %, and 4. 67 % spoke Tigrinya ; the remaining 0. 76 % spoke all other primary languages reported.

Enkutatash is the word for the Ethiopian new year in Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia, while it is called Ri ' se Awde Amet ( Head Anniversary ) in Ge ' ez, the term preferred by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

Nuer is spoken as a first language by 39. 72 %, 27. 47 % speak Anuak, 8. 44 % Amharic, 6. 45 % Oromiffa, and 5. 75 % speak Majang ; the remaining 12. 17 % spoke all other primary languages reported.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church prescribes a number of fasting ( tsom Ge ' ez: ጾም ṣōm ) periods, including Wednesdays, Fridays, and the entire Lenten season, so Ethiopian cuisine contains many dishes that are vegan ( Amharic: ye-tsom የጾም ye-ṣōm, Tigrinya: nay-tsom ናይጾም nāy-ṣōm ).

The name Rastafari is taken from Ras Tafari, the pre-regnal title of Haile Selassie I, composed of Amharic Ras ( literally " Head ", an Ethiopian title equivalent to Duke ), and Haile Selassie's pre-regnal given name, Tafari.

Rastafari learn and know Amharic, both because this was the language of Haile Selassie I, and in order to further their identity as Ethiopian.

Eragrostis tef, known as Xaafii, ( Oromiffa ), teff, taf ( Amharic ጤፍ ṭēff, Tigrinya ጣፍ ṭaff ), is an annual grass, a species of lovegrass native to the northern Ethiopian Highlands of Northeast Africa.

Common names include teff, lovegrass, annual bunch grass ( English ); Ṭeff / Ṭéff ( Amharic, both representing the same sound, an ejective consonant ); Ṭaffi / xaffi ( Oromo, both representing the same sound ); Ṭaff ( Tigrinya ); and mil éthiopien ( French-' Ethiopian millet ').

Degaga (" Mamo ") Wolde ( Amharic: ደጋጋ (" ማሞ ") ዎልደ ; June 12, 1932 – May 26, 2002 ) was an Ethiopian long distance track and road running athlete.

Later, it was translated into almost every language, including Chinese ( with translator Lin Shu creating the first Chinese translation of an American novel in 1901 ) and Amharic ( with the 1930 translation created in support of Ethiopian efforts to end the suffering of blacks in that nation ).

The Ethiopian calendar is based on this reformed calendar but uses Amharic names for its months and uses a different era.

* Ethiopia: 2 May 1889 Treaty of Wuchale, in the Italian language version, stated that Ethiopia was to become an Italian protectorate, while the Ethiopian Amharic language version merely stated that the Emperor could, if he so chose, go through Italy to conduct foreign affairs.

* Sirak Heruy, son of Ethiopian intellectual Heruy Welde Sellase, translated Rasselas into Amharic, one of the major languages of Ethiopia.

When summoned to the court of the young Emperor ( negusä nägäst ) Za Dengel, his knowledge of Amharic and Ge ' ez, as well as his knowledge of Ethiopian customs impressed the sovereign so much that Za Dengel decided to convert from the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church to Catholicism -- although Páez warned him not to announce his declaration too quickly.

For example, until the 1960s, Latin Rite Roman Catholics held Masses in Latin rather than in vernaculars ; to this day the Coptic Church holds liturgies in Coptic, not Arabic ; the Ethiopian Orthodox Church holds liturgies in Ge ' ez though parts of Mass are read in Amharic.

" Satta Massagana " is a Rastafarian hymn sung partly in the ancient Ethiopian Amharic language.

* Suwa ( Tigrinya language ), a local Ethiopian beer, see Tella ( Amharic language )

Besides having almost all the legends in Amharic, there are two features which help to immediately identify an Ethiopian birr.

Million Wolde ( Amharic: ሚሊዮን ወልዴ ; born March 17, 1979 ) is an Ethiopian athlete, winner of the 5000 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics.