teff
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Amharic ጤፍ (ṭēff).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
teff (countable and uncountable, plural teffs)
- A love grass, Eragrostis tef, with small seeds, grown as a cereal and for forage in Ethiopia and parts of Arabia.
- The fine grain of this plant.
- 2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 23:
- She begs the cook to help lift the bags of teff and check their weight.
Coordinate terms edit
- (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, teff, triticale, wheat
Translations edit
grass
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grain
See also edit
Further reading edit
- teff on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “teff”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Amharic ጤፍ (ṭēff).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
teff m (invariable)
Spanish edit
Noun edit
teff m (plural teffs)