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Table-mountain formation in Africa
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amba
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
An amba ( āmbā , imbā ) is a characteristic geologic form in Ethiopia . It is a steep-sided, flat-topped mountain, often the site of villages, wells and their surrounding farmland. These settlements were located there because they were very defensible and ...
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n. A tangy mango pickle used as a condiment in the Middle East.
Usage examples of amba.
I do not know why I was spared, since I drank from the polluted river as much as Amba and the rest.
My sorrow was particularly great because Amba was eight months pregnant at the time.
I had been with Amba when she died and sat beside her body for a long time afterward, and not once, even faintly, had she drawn in a breath.
Yet the dream I just had, of Amba and Rama and Yaksha, of the beginning, is the one I find the most painful.
At this point of our conversation an amba entered the room and made certain signs which my host immediately understood.
I was glad therefore on her account, even more than on my own, when, a scratch at the door having obtained admission for an amba, it placed before me a message from Esmo requesting a private conference.
Eveena had the keys of all my cases and of the medicine-chest, and I could not make up my mind to reclaim them by a simple unexplained message sent by an amba, or, still worse, by the hands of Enva or Eive.
I sent an amba to summon Davilo, gathered the garments that Eveena had thrown off, and removed them to the death-chamber.
Sosteniendo la víscera, que aún latía, sobre la deslumbrante joya, la apretó con ambas manos y un río de sangre cayó sobre la piedra.
Prosperaba comerciando con ambas partes, puesto que vivía en el barrio lindante con el distrito llamado el Laberinto, una maraña de callejuelas tortuosas llenas de lodo con sórdidos tugurios frecuentados por los ladrones más osados del reino.