Amharic English, English Amharic Dictionary: A Modern Dictionary of the Amharic Language (English and Amharic Edition) 2nd Revised ed. Edition

Very useful for my Ethiopian student. She uses it in ESL class.When will you put out a similar dictionary in Somali?

I highly recommend this book to students who are learning the Amharic language. The reason why I did not give it a 5 star is because of the ink on some pages are smeared. I personally think that the Concise Amharic English dictionary from Wolf Leslau is a better choice but both are very good. This book is a must need for students.

The print quality is what kills this one for me. Looks like a bad photocopy. This is not so problematic for the latin script, but the amharic (ge'ez) script is rendered in a font so small that, given the poor print quality, figuring out which characters are being used is unnecessarily difficult. That's the last thing you want in a dictionary.Two other problems: first, there is no index of the fidel in this dictionary. This is a problem if you want to look something up on the Amharic-to-English side but haven't memorized the order of the character classes. Finally, the etymological annotation on the English-to-Amharic side is minimal. A little more etymology info would make it easier to figure out the roots of the Amharic terms (which is key to learning this language, in my opinion).Taken together, these are fairly major drawbacks. A MUCH better choice all around is Wolf Leslau's Concise Amharic Dictionary.

This dictionary appears to be intended for those who read the Amharic alphabet. There is no English phonetic pronunciation. Also, the type, at least in my copy, is not as crisp as most books. On some pages it looks like a very bad photocopy rather than an original. It does have numerous words and is very helpful.

Excellent dictionary

Because at this time it is the only amharic dictionary I own and have nothing to compare it to, I give it a 3. When I first got it my Amharic alphabet knowledge was very limited making this dictionary hard to navigate. Now I can more practically look words up in Amharic since I have studied/learned the alphabet.The print - espescially of the Amharic- is very poor. It is small, and seems to bleed making some (many) of the characters which look very similar to begin with almost impossible to distinguish! (S & L, D & Y, etc)IT does not help that cannibus leaves are printed between sections, as if it were at all relvent to Amharic (I do understand many students of the language are Rasta, but really?)In addition some of the deffinitions were a little disapointing, as I actually need to use the language practically. From an English speaker learning Amharic I would say it is the most usefull, but can teach you something if it is your only option.

This is a brilliant dictionary Endale Zenawi whose work established Ethiopian linguistics as an essentialpart 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.

i don't even think find such a differnt book,amazon get all you want,what you want,on right time of course better price too.