ኢትዮጵያ

Amharic

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Αἰθιοπία (Aithiopía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /itijopʼja/, /itʰiopʼia/

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Proper noun

ኢትዮጵያ • (ʾityop̣ya)

1. Ethiopia (a country in East Africa)

Descendants

• → Afar: Itiyoobiyá
• → Sidamo: Itophia

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

ኢትዮጵያ • (ʾityop̣p̣ya)

1. Ethiopia (a country in East Africa)