ማሽላ

Amharic

Etymology

A Cushitic borrowing, so also in Gurage and in Tigrinya መሸላ (mäšäla), Tigre ማሼላ (mašela).

Noun

ማሽላ • (mašəlla) ?

  1. sorghum

References

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