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English
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Teff_pluim_Eragrostis_tef.jpg/220px-Teff_pluim_Eragrostis_tef.jpg)
Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Amharic ጤፍ (ṭēff).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]teff (countable and uncountable, plural teffs)
- A love grass, Eragrostis tef, with small seeds, grown as a cereal and for forage in Ethiopia and parts of Arabia.
- The fine grain of this plant.
- 2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 23:
- She begs the cook to help lift the bags of teff and check their weight.
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, teff, triticale, wheat
Translations
[edit]grass
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grain
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]teff on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “teff”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Amharic ጤፍ (ṭēff).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]teff m (invariable)
Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]teff m (plural teffs)
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Amharic
- English terms derived from Amharic
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɛf
- Rhymes:English/ɛf/1 syllable
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- en:Ethiopia
- en:Grains
- en:Grasses
- Italian terms borrowed from Amharic
- Italian unadapted borrowings from Amharic
- Italian terms derived from Amharic
- Italian 1-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛf
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛf/1 syllable
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian indeclinable nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- it:Grains
- it:Grasses
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns