ቡና
Amharic
Etymology
Suffixed from ቡን (bunn, “coffee”)
Noun
ቡና • (bunna) ?
- coffee
Descendants
- → Afar: buna
- → Awngi: bunnoa
- → Kafa: buno
- → Oromo: buna
- → Sidamo: buna
- → Waata: bunna
- → Wolaytta: bunna
References
- Beke, Charles Tilstone (1852), “Note [on] the History of Coffee”, in Journal of the Statistical Society of London, volume XV, pages 57–58
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 920b