Negus is a title in the Eritrean and northern Ethiopia Semitic languages. It denotes a monarch, such as the Bahri Negasi of the Medri Bahri kingdom in pre-1890 Eritrea, and the negus in pre-1974 Ethiopia. The negus is referred to as An-Najashi in the Islamic tradition

Meaning "to reign” or a “king”. The good n-word.

The Ethiopian name for a Black emperor... It can also mean King If Kings.

A word that was severely mispronounced in a spelling Bee, which cause a very unintelligent segment of the US population to falsely assume the word derived from a racial epithet. Spelling the word with an (e) on the end, Negus(e) gives the English speaker the correct pronunciation of the word.