Ethiopic (noun)
also written Geez or Ge‘ez
Ge'ez
Ge'ezWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Ge'ez
noun
A Semitic language, closely related to Tigrinya and Tigré, that was spoken in the empire of Aksum and is still used in the liturgy of the Ethiopian and Eritrean branches of the Oriental Orthodox Church. Also called Ethiopic .
Origin of Ge'ez
Ge'ez gə'əz EthiopianTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Proper noun
- An extinct Ethiopian language still used liturgically.
- The writing system originally used for the Ge'ez language
Origin
See also: geezFrom Ge'ez áŒá‹•á‹ (Gəʿəz)
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