እንኰይ

Amharic

እንኰይ

Alternative forms

• እንኮይ (ʾənkoy), እንካይ (ʾənkay)

Etymology

Cognate to Ge'ez ዕንጐት (ʿəngʷät).

Noun

እንኰይ • (ʾənkʷäy)

1. mountain plum (Ximenia americana)

References

• d’Abbadie, Antoine (1881) “እንኰይ”, in Dictionnaire de la langue amariñña (Actes de la Societé Philologique; 10^[1]) (in French), Paris: F. Vieweg, column 530
• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “እንኮይ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 1227b
• እንኮይ on the Amharic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^am