sorghum

See also: Sorghum

English

Sorghum

Sorghum grains

Alternative forms

• sourgum, sorgum, sorgho

Etymology

From New Latin genus name Sorghum, from Italian sorgo, from Vulgar Latin *syricum (“Syrian”), from Sȳricus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ(ɹ).ɡəm/

Noun

sorghum (countable and uncountable, plural sorghums)

1. A cereal, Sorghum bicolor (syn. ) the grains of which are used to make flour and as cattle feed.
   • 1936, Harry Nelson Vinall, Joseph Charlworth Stephens, John Holmes Martin, Identification, History, and Distribution of Common Sorghum Varieties, US Department of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin No. 506, page 2,

     The sorghum crop has four uses — forage, grain, sirup, and industrial (such as the manufacture of brooms, wallboard, etc.).

   • 1978, US Department of Agriculture, Watch out for witchweed, a serious pest of corn, sorghum, and other crops, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Program Number 1212, unnumbered page,

     Witchweed (Striga spp.) is a parasitic plant that attacks corn, sorghum, sugarcane, rice, and more than 60 different species of the grass family.

   • 2008, Lamissa Diakité, Amadou Sidibé, Melinda Smale, Mikkel Grum, Seed Value Chains for Sorghum and Millet in Mali: A State-based System in Transition, International Food Policy Research Institute, Discussion Paper 00749, page 2,

     Archaeological evidence suggests that economies based on cattle, goats, sorghum, and pearl millet were established in this region between 5,000 and 3,000 years ago (Smith 1998).

2. (Southern US) Sorghum syrup.

Synonyms

• (cereal): guinea corn (West Africa); Kafir corn (South Africa); mtama (East Africa); durra (Sudan); juar, jowar, cholam (India); kaoliang (China); milo (United States)

Coordinate terms

• (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, teff, triticale, wheat

Derived terms

• sorghum midge ()
• sorghum syrup, sorghum molasses

Related terms

• sorgolactone

Translations

cereal

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: սորգո (hy) (sorgo)
• Catalan: melca (ca) f, sorgo m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 高粱 (gou¹ loeng⁴), 高粱粟 (gou¹ loeng⁴ suk¹)

  Mandarin: 高粱 (zh) (gāoliáng)

• Czech: čirok (cs) m
• Danish: durra
• Dutch: sorgo (nl)
• Estonian: sorgo
• Finnish: durra (fi)
• French: sorgho (fr) m, sorgo (fr) m
• Galician: sorgo (gl) m
• Georgian: სორგო (sorgo)
• German: Sorghum (de) n, Durra f, Sorghumhirse f
• Greek: σόργο (el) n (sórgo)
• Hausa: dawa
• Hawaiian: kouloena
• Hebrew: דורה (he) f (dúra)
• Hungarian: cirok (hu)
• Italian: sorgo (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 蜀黍 (モロコシ, morokoshi), コーリャン (kōryan), ソルガム (sorugamu)
• Kikuyu: mũhĩa class 3
• Korean: 수수 (ko) (susu)
• Latvian: sorgo m
• Maay: ambulo
• Macedonian: сирак m (sirak)
• Malay: betari
• Norwegian: durra
• Persian: سورگوم (sorgom), جواری (fa) (jovâri)
• Polish: sorgo (pl)
• Portuguese: sorgo (pt) m
• Romanian: sorg (ro) m
• Russian: со́рго (ru) n (sórgo), (in China) гаоля́н (ru) m (gaolján)
• Serbo-Croatian: sirak (sh) m
• Slovene: sirek m
• Spanish: zahína f, sorgo (es) m
• Swahili: mtama (sw)
• Swedish: durra (sv) c
• Tagalog: batad
• ǃXóõ: bāhle

Further reading

• sorghum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia