ኣዳጉራ

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Tigrinya

Alternative forms

Etymology

A Cushitic borrowing. See Arabic دَجْر (dajr).

Noun

ኣዳጉራ (ʾadagura)

  1. cowpea; beans

References

  • da Bassano, Francesco (1918) “fagiuolo”, in Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray (in Italian), Rome: Casa editrice italiana di C. de Luigi, column 1135
  • Schweinfurth, Georg August (1893) “አዳጉራ adográ አዳጕራ”, in Abyssinische Pflanzennamen: eine alphabetische Aufzählung von Namen einheimischer Gewächse in Tigrinja sowie in anderen semitischen und hamitischen Sprachen von Abyssinien, unter Beifügung der botanischen Artbezeichnung (Abhandlungen der königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin / Sitzungsberichte St. XXXIII. S. 647) (in German), Berlin: Verlag der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Commission bei Georg Reimer, page 17