Advanced Amharic Lexicon

Download or read book Advanced Amharic Lexicon written by Girma Y. Getahun and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation which is a companion for the popular concise Amharic-English dictionaries aims to serve the needs of advanced Amharic users. It consists of over 6,000 carefully selected main and subordinate entries, and some 2,700 set phrases, idiomatic expressions and contextual usage culled from a wide spectrum of literary and cultural sources. Advanced students, researchers and those with special interest in Amharic literature, in archival sources, or in socio-cultural and artistic discourse of contemporary Ethiopia will find this lexicon an invaluable reference material.