Teffとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Amharic ጤፍ (ṭēff).

発音

• IPA: /tɛf/
• 韻: -ɛf

名詞

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.

等位語

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

参考

• injera

Further reading

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