négous — meaning in English
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English meaning
- negus noun A king or ruler in Ethiopia; used as a royal title, with the emperor styled negusa nagast, "king of kings".
Senses
négous is used for these senses in English:
- negus (historical) A ruler of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), or of a province of Ethiopia; specifically, the king of Ethiopia before 1974.
negus — full definition
- noun A king or ruler in Ethiopia; used as a royal title, with the emperor styled negusa nagast, "king of kings".
- noun A hot drink made from wine, usually port, mixed with hot water, sugar, lemon and spice.
- noun A respelling of the racial slur nigga, used in hip-hop and online. Writers using it sometimes invoke the Ethiopian royal title above, but the two words are unrelated: the slur descends from Latin niger via Spanish and French, not from Amharic nəgus.
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