Amharic
noun
Am·har·ic
am-ˈher-ik 
-ˈha-rik;
am-ˈhär-
äm-
: a Semitic language that is an official language of Ethiopia
Amharic
adjective
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Local police inspector Ahmed Gebeyehu told BBC Amharic that those confirmed dead were aged between 25 and 80, and the death toll could increase, with many still trapped under the rubble.
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Kirsty Hatcher, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
Family would pour in: Amharic, Tigrinya, debates, laughter.
—Ruhama Wolle, Vogue, 22 May 2025
Among them, original gas lighting fixtures from when the sanctuary was completed in 1859, pews carved with ancient Semitic languages including Cursive Hebrew and Ethiopian Amharic Ge'ez, and floorboards drilled with holes that form a triangular pattern.
—Brienne Walsh, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
Stacks in Arabic, Farsi, Haitian Creole, Hmong, Punjabi and Tigrinya were ready to be packed, and the first batches in Amharic, Khmer and Portuguese would soon be shipped.
—Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025
The font on the album cover is a play on the Geʽez script used in Amharic, her mother tongue.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2024
In Amharic, there is a level of linguistic interchangeability when referring to the flower, taking on meanings of youth, rebirth, and expansion simultaneously.
—Essence, 16 Sep. 2024
Instructions about how to use the phone are in three languages: English, Spanish and Amharic — a reflection of Takoma Park’s Ethiopian community.
—Cathy Free, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2024
As late as December 2020, Meta lacked hate speech classifiers for Oromo and Amharic, two of the major languages spoken in Ethiopia.
—Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2022
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Kirsty Hatcher, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
Family would pour in: Amharic, Tigrinya, debates, laughter.
—Ruhama Wolle, Vogue, 22 May 2025
Among them, original gas lighting fixtures from when the sanctuary was completed in 1859, pews carved with ancient Semitic languages including Cursive Hebrew and Ethiopian Amharic Ge'ez, and floorboards drilled with holes that form a triangular pattern.
—Brienne Walsh, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
Stacks in Arabic, Farsi, Haitian Creole, Hmong, Punjabi and Tigrinya were ready to be packed, and the first batches in Amharic, Khmer and Portuguese would soon be shipped.
—Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025
The font on the album cover is a play on the Geʽez script used in Amharic, her mother tongue.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2024
In Amharic, there is a level of linguistic interchangeability when referring to the flower, taking on meanings of youth, rebirth, and expansion simultaneously.
—Essence, 16 Sep. 2024
Instructions about how to use the phone are in three languages: English, Spanish and Amharic — a reflection of Takoma Park’s Ethiopian community.
—Cathy Free, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2024
As late as December 2020, Meta lacked hate speech classifiers for Oromo and Amharic, two of the major languages spoken in Ethiopia.
—Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2022
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“Amharic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Amharic. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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