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  2. Gebre Hanna - Wikipedia

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    Of Amhara descent, Gebre Hanna was born in November 1821 in Fogera, a district on the eastern shore of Lake Tana, and his interest in religious learning brought him to the city of Gondar towards the end of the Zemene Mesafint, where he became a teacher at the Church of Ba'eta Maryam in the city and eventually its aleqa.

  3. Cultural references to donkeys - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Puzzle is a well-meaning but easily manipulated donkey in C. S ... there are many Amharic proverbs that ...

  4. Amharic - Wikipedia

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    Amharic is an Afro-Asiatic language of the Southwest Semitic group and is related to Geʽez, or Ethiopic, the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox church; Amharic is written in a slightly modified form of the alphabet used for writing the Geʽez language. There are 34 basic characters, each of which has seven forms depending on which ...

  5. Begena - Wikipedia

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    The singer may compose his or her own texts or they may be taken from the Bible, from the Book of Proverbs, or from the Book of Qine, an anthology of proverbs and love poems. Subject matter includes the futility of life, the inevitability of death, saints, mores, morality, prayer, and praises to God. The song's duration varies according to the ...

  6. Haymanot - Wikipedia

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    Haymanot (Ge'ez: ሃይማኖት) is the branch of Judaism which is practiced by the Beta Israel, also known as Ethiopian Jews.. In Geʽez, Tigrinya and Amharic, Haymanot means 'religion' or 'faith'.

  7. Abba Gorgoryos - Wikipedia

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    Aba Gorgorios engraving by Christopher Elias Heiss, Augsburg, 1691 [1] [2]. Abba Gorgoryos (Ge'ez: አባ ጎርጎርዮስ; 1595 – 1658) was an Ethiopian priest from Amhara tribe and lexicographer of noble origin.

  8. The Frog and the Ox - Wikipedia

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    In some other communities there are proverbs based on such stories, as for example, "The frog imitated the elephant and burst" in Kirundi [10] and in Amharic; [11] and in the Chewa language of Zambia, simply "The proud frog burst open" in an attempt to seem more than he was. [12]

  9. Help:Multilingual support (Ethiopic) - Wikipedia

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    Download font — High quality font. Ethiopia Jiret. Self installer for Windows. Download font only — On Windows, unzip the .ttf file to any folder on your disk, then right-click to install it, or move it to the Windows special "Fonts" folder using the Explorer (do not extract it there directly, or it won't be installed correctly).