Oromo

noun

Oro·​mo ȯ-ˈrō-(ˌ)mō How to pronounce Oromo (audio)
ō-
plural Oromos or Oromo
1
: a member of a Cushitic-speaking people of southern Ethiopia and adjacent parts of Kenya
2
: the Cushitic language of the Oromo

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In 2020, she was spotted in a social media video where claimed she had been adopted into Ethiopia's Oromo community in Melbourne, per ABC. — Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 8 Feb. 2025 As late as December 2020, Meta lacked hate speech classifiers for Oromo and Amharic, two of the major languages spoken in Ethiopia. — Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2022

Word History

Etymology

Oromo (western dialect) oromoo, a self-designation, probably from obsolete plural of orma person, stranger

First Known Use

1893, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of Oromo was in 1893

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“Oromo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Oromo. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.

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