finger millet

English

Eleusine coracana

Noun

finger millet (usually uncountable, plural finger millets)

1. A plant of species Eleusine coracana, grown as a cereal in parts of Africa and Asia.

Synonyms

• African millet, African finger millet, ragi, goosegrass, coracan, coracan millet, nachani, natchnee

Translations

a plant grown as a cereal

• Amharic: ዳጉሳ (dagusa)
• Catalan: mill africà m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 穇子 / 䅟子 (zh) (cǎnzi)

• Danish: fingerhirse c
• Dhivehi: ބިންބި (bin̊bi)
• French: éleusine (fr) f
• Fula: cargaari, cergeeri
• German: Fingerhirse f
• Gujarati: નાગલી (nāglī)
• Hausa: támbà
• Hindi: रागी (hi) (rāgī), मड़ुआ (hi) (maṛuā)
• Japanese: シコクビエ (shikokubie)
• Kannada: ರಾಗಿ (kn) (rāgi)
• Kikuyu: mũgĩmbĩ class 3
• Korean: 손가락조 (son'garakjo)
• Malayalam: മുത്താറി (muttāṟi), കൂവരക് (ml) (kūvarakŭ), റാഗി (ml) (ṟāgi), പഞ്ഞപ്പുല്ല് (ml) (paññappullŭ)
• Marathi: नाचणी (nācṇī)
• Norwegian:

  Nynorsk: korakan

• Ossetian: галмуг (galmug) (Iron)
• Polish: manneczka łękowata f
• Punjabi: ਰਾਗੀ (rāgī), ਮਦੁਆ (maduā)
• Russian: дагусса (ru) f (dagussa), коракан m (korakan)
• Rwanda-Rundi: uburo
• Sanskrit: रागीधान्यम् (rāgīdhānyam)
• Sinhalese: කුරහං (kurahaṁ), කුරක්කං (kurakkaṁ)
• Spanish: ragi m, mijo africano m
• Swahili: mwimbi, mbege
• Swedish: korakan
• Tamil: கேழ்வரகு (ta) (kēḻvaraku), குரக்கன் (ta) (kurakkaṉ)
• Telugu: రాగులు (te) (rāgulu)
• Tulu: ರಾಗಿ (rāgi)
• Tyap: gbeam
• Venda: mufhoho

References

• finger millet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Eleusine coracana on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Eleusine coracana on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons