a region of NW Ethiopia: formerly a kingdom a member of a Semitic people inhabiting NW Ethiopia an inhabitant of the former kingdom of Amhara
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Am•ha•ra
(äm här′ə),USA pronunciation n.
- Place Namesa former kingdom in E Africa: now a province in NW Ethiopia. Cap.: Gondar.
- Anthropology, Language Varietiesa member of an agricultural, Amharic-speaking Christian people of central Ethiopia descended from Semites who began conquering the land in the sixth century b.c.
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