ኢትዮጵያ

Amharic

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Αἰθιοπία (Aithiopía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(ʔ)itˈjopʼja/, /(ʔ)itˈjopʼːja/

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• Hyphenation: ኢት‧ዮ‧ጵያ

Proper noun

ኢትዮጵያ • (ʾityop̣ya or ʾityop̣p̣ya) f

1. Ethiopia (a country in East Africa)

Descendants

• → Afar: Itiyoobiyá
• → Sidamo: Itophia

References

• Kane, Thomas Leiper (1990), “ኢትዮጵያ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary (in Amharic and English), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
• “ኢትዮጵያ”, in Amharic Dictionary‎^[1] (overall work in English), Amharic Teacher

Ge'ez

Alternative forms

• እትዮጵያ (ʾətyop̣ya)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Αἰθιοπία (Aithiopía).

Proper noun

ኢትዮጵያ • (ʾityop̣ya)

1. Ethiopia (a country in East Africa)

   Synonyms: ብሔረ ግዕዝ (bəḥerä gəʿz), ብሔረ አግዓዝ (bəḥerä ʾägʿaz), ሐበሠት (ḥäbäśät)

References

• Breyer, Francis (2016), Punt. Die Suche nach dem „Gottesland“ (Culture and History of Ancient Near East; 80) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 530 seqq.
• Dillmann, August (1865), “ኢትዮጵያ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 1418, line 26 a fine
• “ኢትዮጵያ”, in Ancient Ethiopic TraCES Corpus (of Beta maṣāḥǝft), Hamburg, 2014–2019

Tigrinya

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Αἰθιοπία (Aithiopía).

Proper noun

ኢትዮጵ፟ያ • (ʾityop̣p̣ya) m

1. Ethiopia (a country in East Africa)