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ማሽላ

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Amharic

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ማሽላ

Etymology

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A Cushitic borrowing, so also in Gurage and in Tigrinya መሸላ (mäšäla), Tigre ማሼላ (mašela).

Noun

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ማሽላ (mašəlla?

  1. sorghum

References

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  • Leslau, Wolf (1945) “The Influence of Cushitic on the Semitic Languages of Ethiopia: a Problem of Substratum”, in Word[1], volume 1, number 1, →DOI, page 80