Amharan.adj.

1837 J. C. Prichard Res. Physical Hist. Mankind (ed. 3) II. vi. 133 The Amharas have been for ages the dominant people in Abyssinia.

1868 A. D'Abbadie tr. in Catholic World May 268/1 The Amaras, more lively, more intelligent, and more civilized, live in the interior, and use a language of Semitic origin.

1960 E. Ullendorff Ethiopians iii. 37 A greater measure of non-Semitic ingredients in the Amharic language may accurately reflect a lesser degree of ethnic Semitization among the Amharas than is the case with the Tigreans.

2006 E. Kissi Revol. & Genocide in Ethiopia & Cambodia iii. 53 The convenor of the Dergue, Major Atnafu Abate, an Amhara from the 4th Infantry Division of the Ethiopian Army,..staunchly opposed the adoption of Marxism as the ideology of the incipient revolution.

1844 Edinb. Rev. July 60 Great, however, and not altogether unnatural, was the distrust entertained by the Amhara warriors of the courage of the Embassy.

1890 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 22 121 The regions in which the Amhara tongue is spoken are called by the collective name of Amhara.

1968 Current Hist. Feb. 79/1 The fact that E.L.F. elements are receiving financial and other support from several Arab states has heightened Amhara anxieties.

1992 G. Hancock Sign & Seal i. ii. 34 Inevitably,..Amhara culture—expressed through an almost universal dedication to the Christian faith—had had an enormous impact.

2010 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 13 May 56/4 A quarter of the population is Amhara.