abyssinia
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Name — Former name of Ethiopia: a country and former empire in East Africa; used as an exonym until the mid 20th century.
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Etymology
From Renaissance Latin Abyssīnī (“the Abyssinians”), from Arabic الْحَبَشَة (al-ḥabaša), from حَبَش (ḥabaš, “Abyssinian”). The humorous use of Abyssinia as a parting phrase is due to its phonetic resemblance to I'll be seeing ya.
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