This is a very good dictionary
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This is a brilliant dictionary Endale Zenawi whose work established Ethiopian linguistics as an essential
part of Semitic studies was a great friend and collaborator of Wolf Leslau and both these individuals went on to write the best two dictionaries on Amharic.
They were models of dedicated scholarship and academic productivity.
This dictionary by Endale Zenawi's dictionary is the original Amharic English, English Amharic Dictionary there is another dictionary printed on bad quality paper by A. Zekaria which is based on this one and printed in India.
In the 1980s there were a large number of Indian teachers in Ethiopia and Endale Zenawi's dictionary was taken to India and reprinted there in order to teach new teachers Amharic. If you have the Indian version by A Zekaria then do not buy this one as they have much in common.
However if you do not have a dictionary If you wish to buy the best Amharic dictionaries then buy this one and also the one by Wolf Leslau.
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