వేరుసెనగ
Telugu
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]వేరుశనగ (vēruśanaga)
Etymology
[edit]Compound of వేరు (vēru, “root”) + సెనగ (senaga, “chickpea”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]వేరుసెనగ • (vērusenaga) n (plural వేరుసెనగలు)
- groundnut, peanut (particularly Coastal Andhra, North Andhra, Eastern Telangana)
References
[edit]- "వేరుసెనగ" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, pages 1231, 1249, 1301
- వేరుసెనగ at Telugu On-line Dictionaries Project on Andhra Bharati, partially sponsored by the Telugu Association of North America (in Telugu)
- Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, editor (1962/1974-2008), “వేరుసెనగ”, in మాండలిక వృత్తిపదకోశం [A Telugu Dialectal Dictionary of Occupational Vocabularies] (in Telugu), Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Akademi
- “వేరుశనగ”, in ప్రాంతీయ మాండలిక పదకోశం [Regional Dialectical Dictionary] (in Telugu), Hyderabad: Telugu Academy, 2004