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From Arabic حَبَش (ḥabaš).
Habesh m
- (Turkish) Habesha (former name of Ethiopia, a country in Africa)
- Synonyms: Etiopi, Absini (historical)
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “Habésh”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 152