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单词 otenga
释义

otenga

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Assamese ঔটেঙা (outeṅa).

Noun

otenga

  1. A flowering evergreen tree of southeastern Asia, Dillenia indica, bearing edible fruits.
    • 1836, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. 5, p. 196:
      It is prepared by pounding the root to powder, and mixing it up with the juice of the Otenga tree, to give it tenacity, and make it adhere to the arrow head.
    • 1917, Quarterly Journal of the India Tea Association, Part I, p. 11:
      One is Chelta (Dillenia indica), the common Assamese "Otenga", and the other Ping (Cynometra polyandra). Both these trees have hard, heavy woods […].
    • 2011, Deepika Phukan, translating Arupa Patangia Kalita, The Story of Felanee:
      He kept all the things near the hearth where he had already put some greens, two sour otenga fruits and a bunch of tender curry leaves, along with some dry fire wood.

Anagrams

  • atgone, goaten, gone at

Luo

Noun

otenga

  1. kite[1]
    1. black-shouldered kite (Elanus caeruleus)[2]
    2. black kite (Milvus migrans)[2]

References

  1. Hobley, C. W. (1903). "British East Africa: Anthropological Studies in Kavirondo and Nandi", p. 348. The Joural of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 33, 325359.
  2. Kokwaro, John O. and Timothy Johns (1998). Luo Biological Dictionary, p. 196. Nairobi and Kampala and Dar es Salaam: East African Educational Publishers. →ISBN
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