. . "NEGas redirects here, for the former North Eastern gas board see Area gas boardsNegus (Ge'ez: \u1290\u1309\u1225, n\u0259g\u016B\u015B IPA: [n\u0268gu\u02D0\u026C]; Amharic: nig\u016Bs?; cf. Tigrinya: \u1290\u130B\u1232? negus) is a royal title in the Ethiopian Semitic languages. It denotes a monarch such as the Bahri Negus of the Medri Bahri in pre-1890 Eritrea and the Negus in pre-1974 Ethiopia. The title has subsequently been used to translate the words \"king\" or \"emperor\" in Biblical and other literature."@en .