Breadcrumb Home > Dictionary > Index A Amhara: Meaning and Definition of Find definitions for: Am•ha•ra Pronunciation: (äm-här'u), [key] — n. a former kingdom in E Africa: now a province in NW Ethiopia. Cap.: Gondar. a member of an agricultural, Amharic-speaking Christian people of central Ethiopia descended from Semites who began conquering the land in the sixth century b.c. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease. See also: amhara (Thesaurus) AMG Amharic ✖ Related Content Daily Word Quiz: guilloche Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy Frequently Misspelled Words Frequently Mispronounced Words Easily Confused Words Writing & Language