Save Gender Masculine Usage Ge'ez, Amharic, Ethiopian Scripts ኃይለ(Ge'ez) ኃይሌ(Amharic) Pronounced Pron. [ˈhaɪ.lɜ](Amharic) [key·simplify] Meaning & History Means "power, force, strength" in Ge'ez and Amharic. This was the Ge'ez (baptismal) name of Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie (1892-1975), who was born as Tafari Makonnen.