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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to Ge'ez.
  • adjective Ethiopian.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining or relating to Ethiopia or Abyssinia; Ethiopian.
  • noun The language of ancient Ethiopia or Abyssinia, a Semitic tongue, most allied to the Himyaritic of southwestern Arabia, and having a Christian literature. Also called Geëz.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The language of ancient Ethiopia; the language of the ancient Abyssinian empire (in Ethiopia), now used only in the Abyssinian church. It is of Semitic origin, and is also called Geez.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective archaic Ethiopian
  • proper noun Ge'ez language.

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