Ethiopian

• Æthiopian (archaic)

From Ethiopia +‎ -an.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌiː.θiˈəʊ.pɪ.ən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌi.θiˈoʊ.pi.ən/

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• Hyphenation: E‧thi‧o‧pi‧an

Ethiopian (plural Ethiopians)

1. A person from Ethiopia or of Ethiopian descent.
   • 2002 August 1, Frank Tenaille, Music is the Weapon of the Future: Fifty Years of African Popular Music, →ISBN, page 168:

     Ahmed was also appreciated for his talents as a showman, because he had no equal in letting loose the famous eskista, with the heaving quiver of the torso and shoulders, of which Ethiopians are so fond. Eskista is the dance of the Amharas, enhancing amorous repartee and expressing collective jubilation.

   • 2024 June 16, Tamara Hardingham-Gill, “The country where it’s still 2016”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     So why is Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous country, seven years and eight months “behind” much of the rest of the world? And how does that work for Ethiopians living on an increasingly interconnected planet that mostly operates in an entirely different era?

2. (dated) A black-skinned person, especially one from Africa.

   The Ethiopian eunuch.

3. (slang, derogatory) A very skinny person, referencing the historic malnutrition and poverty in Ethiopia.

• sub-Saharan
• Horner, Horn African
• African

• Ethiopian in the woodpile

Ethiopian (comparative more Ethiopian, superlative most Ethiopian)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Ethiopia, the Ethiopian people or the Ethiopian culture.
   • 2018 February 20, Adesola Akinleye, Narratives in Black British Dance: Embodied Practices, →ISBN, page 195:

     One of Ethiopia's most popular traditional dances, eskista, which is said to have originated from the lower highlands of Ethiopia's Amhara region, exemplifies the type of multi-functionality that Martin (1967) acknowledges as it is performed in many different settings of the Ethiopian community.

   • 2024 July 23, Nimi Princewill, Mek Tekeste and Louis Mian, “More than 200 dead in southern Ethiopia landslides”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     A local official, Habtamu Fetena, had earlier told state-run broadcaster, the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) that children were among the dead and the death toll was likely to increase.

2. (dated, not comparable) Of, from, or pertaining to Africa and the African diaspora.
   • 2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 314:

     Any person of color recognized his Ethiopian heritage immediately. That nose, those lips, good hair or no.

• Ethiopic

• IPA^(key): /ˈet.xi͜u.pi.ɑn/, [ˈet.hi͜u.pi.ɑn]

Ethiopian

1. accusative/genitive/dative singular of Ethiopia