Amharic of the Day

From the great Biniam Hirut’s (binyam heerut) FB page, an ode to the greatness of His Imperial Majesty King of Kings of Abyssinia Emperor Mineelik II; approaching the March 1st commemoration of the historic victory at Adwa, against the bloodthirsty and artificially expansionist Italian invaders, which shocked the white world. And I imagine, more-so than even the Japanese victory a decade later, in the Russo-Japanese War; given the Harvard and University of North Carolina admittance-related Supreme Court case about Asian-Americans and Asians in America, and the niche scholarship of Charles Murray and Steve Sailer…

ቢገፉት የማይወድቅ ፣ ምኒልክ ተራራ

ኖሮም የሚከበር ፣ ሞቶም የሚፈራ

(bee’gefut ye’maywedq mineelik terara

norom ye’mee’keber motom ye’mee’fera)

Notice that the verse rhymes in the original Amharic, before I translate it for you hither. There is always something lost. Though, I always do my best to preserve beauty.

if they push him, he will not fall down, mineelik the mountain, when he lived, he was honored, and even in death, he is feared

I will add, as many do nowadays, ዛሬም ንጉሥ (zarém nigus), and today, living rent-free in the minds of his enemies (the neo-marxist separatists and secessionists that speak ill of historic ethiopia), he is still king...