ማሽላ

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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