ትርንጐ

ትርንጐ

Ge'ez

ትርንጕ

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تُرُنْج‎ (turunj).

Noun

ትርንጐ • (tərəngʷä) (plural ትርንጕ (tərəngʷ))

1. citron (Citrus medica)
   • 15^th century manuscript, edited by Sylvain Grébaut, Les trois derniers traités du Livre des Mystères du ciel et de la terre [Book of the Mysteries of the Heaven and the Earth] (Patrologia Orientalis; 6.III (28)), Paris: Firmin-Didot et C^ie, published 1911, page 429 last line:

     እንጐታት፡ ፭ዘውእቱ፡ ትርንጕ

     ʾəngʷätat 5zäwʾətu tərnəgʷ

     Five mountain plums, comparable with citrons

References

• “ትርንጐ”, in Ancient Ethiopic TraCES Corpus (of Beta maṣāḥǝft), Hamburg, 2014–2019