Look up Ethiopian, Abissinia, Ethiop, Etiopia, or Æthiopia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Ethiopian (from Greek Αἰθίοπας "having a burnt face", also Latinized Ethiopia in historical contexts) may also refer to:

• pertaining to the state of Ethiopia
  • Ethiopian Airlines, the national airline of Ethiopia
• a person from Ethiopia, or of Ethiopian descent
  • see people of Ethiopia
  • the demographics of Ethiopia
  • for individuals, see List of Ethiopians
• also Ethiopic, the Ethiopian Semitic languages
  • more specifically, the Ge'ez language

Obsolete usage

Historically, Aethiopian was also:

• a term referring to Sub-Saharan Africa, e.g:
  • the Ethiopian Ocean, an obsolete name for the South Atlantic
  • the Ethiopian movement
• a historical term for black African, especially in North America, e.g.:
  • the Ethiopian Serenaders
  • Ethiopian Regiment, a regiment of Black Loyalists during the American Revolution
  • Peace Movement of Ethiopia
  • Washing the Ethiopian White, a fable
  • Dysaesthesia aethiopica, a pseudoscientific diagnosis purported to afflict black slaves in the US

See also

• Ethiopian race (disambiguation)
• Sudan (region)

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