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Cutesy nickname given to shorter-than average people, can be considered offensive unlike its antonym "langeraad". kotch – (from "kots") lit. "to vomit" (vulgar) krimpie – old person; kraaines – lit. "crow's nest". While the original English meaning stays intact, it can also refer to a big mess.
slang term for the undergarment called an athletic supporter or jockstrap: joint piece of meat for carving * (slang) hand-rolled cigarette containing cannabis and tobacco connection between two objects or bones an establishment, especially a disreputable one ("a gin joint"; "let's case the joint") (slang, orig. US)
Sidama or Sidaamu Afoo is an Afro-Asiatic language belonging to the Highland East Cushitic branch of the Cushitic family. It is spoken in parts of southern Ethiopia by the Sidama people, particularly in the densely populated Sidama National Regional State (SNRS).
Amsalu Aklilu (2 September 1929 – 19 December 2013) was a distinguished lexicographer of Amharic and a language professor at Addis Ababa University, [1] a major figure in Ethiopian studies. He was born in Dessie , Wällo, attended a local church school and later attended and graduated from Holy Trinity Secondary School, in Addis Ababa .
There are multiple ways to write some letters in Amharic as some of the sounds that were once used in Geʽez are non-existent in modern Amharic. At the cost of redundancy, Amharic speakers retain the archaic letters in their orthography to preserve the Geʽez origins of many of their words. Also, the English approximations are sometimes very ...
The term tizita is distinctly Amharic, there's no Geez equivalent, as opposed to the term nafkot which belongs to both languages with the same meaning (regret, emotion linked to a remembrance). [3] Tizita folk songs developed in the countryside by the Amhara peasantry and the village musicians called the Azmaris .
Jive talk, also known as Harlem jive or simply Jive, the argot of jazz, jazz jargon, vernacular of the jazz world, slang of jazz, and parlance of hip [1] is an African-American Vernacular English slang or vocabulary that developed in Harlem, where "jive" was played and was adopted more widely in African-American society, peaking in the 1940s.
In Amharic, bihier, when directly translated into English, means ethnic group. Another, more generic Ethiopian/Eritrean word meaning "God" (including the deities of any other religion) is አምላክ ( `amlak ) which is descended from the Proto-Semitic term for "king" or "ruler."