[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/amharic.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/) / amharic

[← A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/A/)

# amharic

«amharic» in Mova's school dictionary: **The main working language of Ethiopia, written in its own…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (Amharic); adjective (Amharic)

### meaning for a pupil

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

2) adjective: About that language. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amharic/#m2)

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «amharic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amharic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.