teff

English

Alternative forms

• tef

Etymology

Borrowed from Amharic ጤፍ (ṭēff).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛf/
• Rhymes: -ɛf

Noun

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.

Coordinate terms

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

Translations

grass

Czech: milička habešská Dutch: teff (nl) n Finnish: tefheinä (fi) German: Teff (de) m, Zwerghirse f Norwegian: Bokmål: teff m

grain

Amharic: ጤፍ (ṭēff) Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 苔麸 (tái fū) Finnish: tefhirssi French: mil éthiopien (fr) m Hebrew: טֵף (he) m (téf) Italian: please add this translation if you can Oromo: xaafii, ṭaffi, xaffi Polish: miłka abisyńska Spanish: teff m Tigrinya: ጣፍ (ṭaff)

See also

• injera

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Amharic ጤፍ (ṭēff).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛf/
• Rhymes: -ɛf

Noun

teff m (invariable)

1. teff

Spanish

Noun

teff m (plural teffs)

1. teff