finger millet

English

Eleusine coracana

Noun

finger millet (usually uncountable, plural finger millets)

1. A plant, Eleusine coracana, grown as a cereal in parts of Africa and Asia.

Synonyms

• African millet, African finger millet, ragi, goosegrass, coracan, coracan millet, natchnee

Translations

a plant grown as a cereal

• Amharic: ዳጉሳ (dagusa)
• Dhivehi: ބިންބި (bin̊bi)
• French: éleusine (fr) f
• German: Fingerhirse f
• Gujarati: નાગલી (nāglī)
• Hindi: रागी (hi) (rāgī)
• Japanese: シコクビエ (shikokubie)
• Kannada: ರಾಗಿ (kn) (rāgi)
• Kikuyu: mũgĩmbĩ class 3
• Malayalam: മുത്താറി (muttāṟi)
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• Marathi: नाचणी (nācṇī)
• Nepali: कोदो (ne) (kodo)
• Norwegian:

  Nynorsk: korakan

• Sanskrit: रागीधान्यम् (rāgīdhānyam)
• Spanish: ragi m, mijo africano m
• Swahili: mwimbi, mbege
• Tamil: கேழ்வரகு (ta) (kēḻvaraku)
• Telugu: రాగులు (te) (rāgulu)

References

• finger millet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Eleusine coracana on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Eleusine coracana on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons