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1. Agaw, n. and adj. View full entry 1790
...(The name of) a group of various related peoples of Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti; a member of one of these peoples....
2. fennec, n. View full entry 1790
...The name of an animal (Canis zerda) found in Africa, resembling a small fox, but having very long ears....
3. Geez, n. View full entry 1790
...The ancient language of Ethiopia, still used as a liturgical language; = Ethiopic Also attrib....
4. girba, n. View full entry 1790
...A water-vessel made of leather....
5. Kababish, n. View full entry 1790
...A nomadic Arab people of the northern Kordofan and Dongola provinces of the Sudan. Also attrib....
6. Saho, n. and adj. View full entry 1790
...A (member of a) Cushitic-speaking people of Eritrea....
7. simoom, n. View full entry 1790
...A hot, dry, suffocating sand-wind which sweeps across the African and Asiatic deserts at intervals during the spring and summer....
8. teff, n. View full entry 1790
...An important cereal of Ethiopia, Poa (Eragrostis) abyssinica, producing minute red or white grains from which bread is made; introduced elsewhere as a fodder plant. Also...
9. tocusso, n. View full entry 1790
...A name used in Ethiopia for finger millet, Eleusine coracana, the ear of which is composed of several spikes resembling the fingers of a hand....
10. zimb, n. View full entry 1790
...A dipterous insect of Ethiopia, allied to and resembling the tsetse, and very destructive to cattle....
