መሸላ

Tigrinya
መሸላ – Sorghum bicolor

Etymology

A Cushitic borrowing, also found in Gurage, Amharic ማሽላ (mašəlla), Tigre ማሼላ (mašela).

Noun

መሸላ • (mäšäla) m

  1. sorghum

References
  • Leslau, Wolf (1945), “The Influence of Cushitic on the Semitic Languages of Ethiopia: a Problem of Substratum”, in Word‎, volume 1, issue 1, →DOI, page 80
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