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Falasha

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Fa·la·sha  (f-läsh, fä-)
n. pl. Falasha or Fa·la·shas Often Offensive
An Ethiopian Jew.
[Amharic fälaa, from fäla, migrant, active participle of fälläsä, to migrate; see pl in Semitic roots.]
Falasha [fəˈlæʃə]
n pl -sha, -shas
(Non-Christian Religions / Judaism) a member of a tribe of Black Ethiopian Jews
[from Amharic, from fälasi stranger]


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Falasha figurines are now so well known that it comes as a surprise to discover that this form of representational art began to be produced only in the late 1940s (see Pankhurst 1964, Rauschenbauch and Hammerschmidt 1966, Schoenberger 1975).
Ethiopian figurines from Mugar monastery in Shawa by Pankhurst, Richard / African Arts
Other Ethiopians call the Beta Israel Falashas, strangers, although they buy tools made by Menelik's father, a blacksmith.
Why I Left My Village by Salvadore, Maria B. / The Horn Book Magazine
This migration took the Bena Kongo to Egypt in 4000, then had them migrating, after the reign of Pharaoh Akhnaten, back to Ethiopia in time to be present when Makeda married Solomon to form the Falasha in Ethiopia.
Origin traditions and history in Central Africa by Thornton, John K. / African Arts
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