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Falasha
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English
Etymology
From an Ethiopic-language term, possibly Ge'ez gez ፈላሻ, meaning wanderer, migrant, nomad.
Proper noun
en derogatory Ethiopian Jew; Beta Israel
en 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.