Falasha
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English
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Etymology
[edit]From an Ethiopic-language term, possibly Ge'ez ፈላሻ (fälaša), meaning wanderer, migrant, nomad.
Proper noun
[edit]Falasha
- (derogatory) Ethiopian Jew; Beta Israel
- 2006, Peter Godwin, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa:
- The master bedroom is a jewelry workshop where we find Rikki, an Ethiopian Jewish refugee, a Falasha, in a leopard-print leotard and safety goggles, armed with a soldering gun, bent over a trestle table making exquisite pendants and earrings of silver and nickel and amber.