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^[1], volume 1, number 1, →DOI, page 80