negus in English
noun
1
a hot drink of port, sugar, lemon, and spices.
Here is another recipe for negus , provided by Maria, from Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management, originally published in 1861.
noun
1
a ruler, or the supreme ruler, of Ethiopia.
The Quraish (the leading tribe of Makkah) sent two emissaries to make a plea before the Abyssinian king, the Negus , to return the refugees back to Quraish.
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1. Based on details and inscriptions in the image, four of the depicted kings are identified as the Byzantine Emperor, the Visigothic king Roderic, the Sassanid Persian Shah, and the Negus of Ethiopia.
2. Towards the end of the last century the friars were again established in the dominions of the Negus, chiefly through the exertions of the celebrated Capuchin missionary afterwards known as Cardinal Massaïa.