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# amharic

noun (Amharic); adjective (Amharic)

«amharic» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. The main working language of Ethiopia, written in its own script called Ge'ez (Fidel). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amharic/#m1)
2. adjective: About that language. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amharic/#m2)

### In the lessons

Met in geography and language lessons about Africa. It is a Semitic language, related to Arabic and Hebrew, with its own alphabet of syllables.

### Examples

- Amharic is spoken by millions in Ethiopia. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amharic/#x1)
- Amharic uses its own beautiful script. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amharic/#x2)
- My friend's mum speaks Amharic at home. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amharic/#x3)
- «Selam» is a greeting in Amharic. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amharic/#x4)
- Amharic letters stand for whole syllables. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amharic/#x5)
- We saw an Amharic sign in the café. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amharic/#x6)

### Note

Capital A. Said «am-HAR-ik». Not an English word but the name of a language.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «amharic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amharic/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«amharic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/amharic.html) on Mova free.