ዕንግል

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Tigre

Solanum campylacanthum syns. So­la­num pan­du­ri­for­me, So­la­num in­ca­num is found in the African tropics:
Its toxicity vari­ously re­duced by hu­man se­lec­tion, it is wide­ly used as an anal­ge­sic and in Ethio­pia in particular the fruits are used as soap and in tan­ning leather.

Etymology

Cognate to Tigrinya ዕንጒለ (ʿəngʷillä, “Solanum campylacanthum”)

Noun

ዕንግል • (ʿəngəl) (collective, singulative ዕንግልተት (ʿəngəltät))

  1. name of various nightshades (Solanum spp., also Ceropegia vignaldiana, a rather rare plant included by Ceropegia bulbosa)

References

  • Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ዕንግል”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)‎, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, pages 475a–b
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