వేరుసెనగ

Telugu

Alternative forms

వేరుశనగ (vēruśanaga)

Etymology

Compound of వేరు (vēru, “root”) +‎ సెనగ (senaga, “chickpea”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋeːɾusenaɡa/

Noun

వేరుసెనగ • (vērusenaga) n (plural వేరుసెనగలు)

1. groundnut, peanut (particularly Coastal Andhra, North Andhra, Eastern Telangana)

References

• "వేరుసెనగ" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, pages 1231, 1249, 1301
• వేరుసెనగ at Telugu On-line Dictionaries Project on Andhra Bharati, partially sponsored by the Telugu Association of North America (in Telugu)
• Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, editor (1962/1974-2008), “వేరుసెనగ”, in మాండలిక వృత్తిపదకోశం [A Telugu Dialectal Dictionary of Occupational Vocabularies] (in Telugu), Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Akademi
• “వేరుశనగ”, in ప్రాంతీయ మాండలిక పదకోశం [Regional Dialectical Dictionary] (in Telugu), Hyderabad: Telugu Academy, 2004