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- Ge'ez · borrowed fromቤተ እስራኤል“Israelites”
- English todayBeta Israel
From Ge'ez ቤተ እስራኤል (betä ʾəsraʾel, “Israelites”, literally “House of Israel”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Beta Israel
Today it means: A Jewish diaspora group that lived for thousands of years in the territory of the Kingdom of Aksum and its successor the Ethiopian Empire; they mostly emigrated to the State of Israel after its foundation in 1948. Full definition →
Ge'ez ቤተ እስራኤል