Word origins

• AmharaA member of a Semitic people of Ethiopia.
• kochoA bread-like fermented food made from chopped and grated ensete pulp, a staple of Ethiopian cuisine.
• abugidaA kind of syllabary (syllabic alphabet) in which a symbol or glyph representing a syllable contains parts representing a vowel and a consonant, such that symbols for syllables not including the default vowel are generated by adding a common notation to indicate the vowel that it does include.
• abunaThe Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church.
• Beta IsraelA 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.
• BoudaA werehyena in Ethiopian mythology.
• enseteEnsete ventricosum, a species of flowering plant in the banana family Musaceae, the root of which is used for food and other purposes.
• Ge'ezAn Ethiopian language which is extinct but still used liturgically.
• HamasienA historical province of Eritrea.
• Haymanotthe traditions and practices of the Beta Israel community
• kahena Haymanot religious role, analogous to a rabbi in other Jewish communities
• P'ent'ayEthiopian and/or Eritrean Protestant
• qeneAn Ethiopian literary genre that employs double entendres.
• SigdA holiday of the Beta Israel Ethiopian Jews, celebrated on the 29th day of Cheshvan.
• TewahedoBelonging or relating to the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and/or the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church.