Ethiopia

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Ethiopia

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Aethiopia (Classical Greek term)

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Alternative forms

• Æthiopia (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin Aethiopia, from Ancient Greek Αἰθιοπία (Aithiopía), from Αἰθίοψ (Aithíops), of disputed origin (see the latter article). Displaced native Old English Siġelhearwena land (literally “land of the sun worshippers”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌiː.θiˈəʊ.pɪ.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌi.θiˈoʊ.pi.ə/

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• Rhymes: -əʊpiə

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Hyphenation: E‧thi‧o‧pi‧a

Proper noun

Ethiopia

2. A country in East Africa.
   • 1991, Tesfaye Tesemma, “Improvement of indigenous durum wheat landraces in Ethiopia” in Plant Genetic Resources of Ethiopia, 288:

     Wheat has been and continues to be one of the most important cereal crops in Ethiopia in terms of both area under cultivation and production.

   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. The Federal 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, page 243:

     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

• Subsahara
• Horn

Descendants

• → Gujarati: ઇથિયોપિયા (ithiyopiyā)
• → Hindi: इथियोपिया (ithiyopiyā)
• → Korean: 에티오피아 (etiopia)
• → Navajo: Iithiyópya
• → Yoruba: Ìtíópíà

Translations

See also

• Addis Ababa
• Abyssinia
• Countries of the world
• Ethiopia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• (countries of Africa) countries of Africa; Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: en:Countries in Africa) [edit]}

Dinka

Proper noun

Ethiopia

1. Ethiopia (a country in East Africa)

Portuguese

Proper noun

Ethiopia f

1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of Etiópia. : Ethiopia (a country in East Africa)

Swahili

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Ethiopia

1. Ethiopia (a country in East Africa)

Synonyms

• Uhabeshi/Habeshi

Derived terms

• Mwethiopia

See also

• (countries of Africa) nchi za Afrika; Algeria or Aljeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Kamerun or Cameroon or Kameruni, Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kati, Chad or Chadi, Komori or Visiwa vya Ngazija, Cote d'Ivoire or Kodivaa, Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo or Kongo-Kinshasa, Jibuti or Djibouti, Misri or Umisri, Guinea ya Ikweta or Ginekweta, Eritrea, Ethiopia or Uhabeshi or Habeshi, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea or Gine or Gini, Guinea Bisau or Guinea-Bisau or Ginebisau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagaska or Bukini, Malawi or Unyasa, Mali, Mauritania, Morisi, Mayotte, Moroko or Maroko, Msumbiji or Mozambik, Namibia, Niger or Nijeri, Nigeria or Nijeria or Naijeria, Jamhuri ya Kongo or Kongo-Brazzaville, Réunion, Rwanda or Ruanda, Mtakatifu Helena, Sao Tome na Principe, Senegal or Senegali, Shelisheli, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Afrika Kusini, Sudan Kusini, Sudan, Uswazi or Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Sahara ya Magharibi, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: sw:Countries in Africa) [edit]}