otenga

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Assamese ঔটেঙা (outeṅa).

Noun

otenga

  1. A flowering evergreen tree of southeastern Asia, Dillenia indica, bearing edible fruits.
    • 1836, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, volume 5, page 196:
      It is prepared by pounding the root to powder, and mixing it up with the juice of the Otenga tree, to give it tenacity, and make it adhere to the arrow head.
    • 1917, Quarterly Journal of the India Tea Association, Part I, p. 11:
      One is Chelta (Dillenia indica), the common Assamese "Otenga", and the other Ping (Cynometra polyandra). Both these trees have hard, heavy woods .
    • 2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:
      He kept all the things near the hearth where he had already put some greens, two sour otenga fruits and a bunch of tender curry leaves, along with some dry fire wood.

Anagrams

Luo

Noun

otenga

  1. kite[1]
    1. black-shouldered kite (Elanus caeruleus)[2]
    2. black kite (Milvus migrans)[2]

References

  1. ^ Hobley, C. W. (1903). "British East Africa: Anthropological Studies in Kavirondo and Nandi", p. 348. The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 33, 325–359.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kokwaro, John O. and Timothy Johns (1998). Luo Biological Dictionary, p. 196. Nairobi and Kampala and Dar es Salaam: East African Educational Publishers. →ISBN
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