Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A group of tribes in southern Ethiopia.
- noun Any of the Semitic languages of the Gurage.
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- proper noun A group of
peoples of southernEthiopia . - proper noun Any of the
Semitic languages of these people.
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Examples
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One night I found myself the only foreign face among ten thousand Muslim pilgrims at a back-country religious festival in the Gurage Zone.
Marc Ian Barasch: Practicing 'Green Compassion': How Do You Stack Up? 2010
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That said, the best etymological dictionary of a Semitic language largely, if not entirely, supplanting Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum ed. 2 of 1928 is Wolf Leslau's three-volume etymological dictionary of Gurage.
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[MELES Zenawi] (an alliance of ANDM, OPDO, SEPDF, and TPLF); Gurage
The 2005 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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They will be showcasing as many groups that make up Ethiopia as possible, which include Amhara, Tigray, Oromo and Gurage.
WN.com - Articles related to ETHIOPIA: Government denies food aid "manipulated" for political gain 2010
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They will be showcasing as many groups that make up Ethiopia as possible, which include Amhara, Tigray, Oromo and Gurage.
WN.com - Articles related to ETHIOPIA: Government denies food aid "manipulated" for political gain 2010
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Revolutionary Democratic Front or GPRDF [leader NA]; Gurage
The 2004 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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People's Revolutionary Democratic Front or GPRDF [leader NA]; Gurage
The 2004 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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