teff

 

• tef

Borrowed from Amharic ጤፍ (ṭēff).

• IPA^(key): /tɛf/
• Rhymes: -ɛf

teff (countable and uncountable, plural teffs)

1. A love grass, Eragrostis tef, with small seeds, grown as a cereal and for forage in Ethiopia and parts of Arabia.
2. The fine grain of this plant.
   • 2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 23:

     She begs the cook to help lift the bags of teff and check their weight.

• (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, teff, triticale, wheat

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•   teff on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “teff”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Unadapted borrowing from Amharic ጤፍ (ṭēff).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛf/
• Rhymes: -ɛf

teff m (invariable)

1. teff

teff m (plural teffs)

1. teff