Amharic edit

 
ማሽላ

Etymology edit

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

Noun edit

ማሽላ (mašəlla?

  1. sorghum

References edit

  • 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