different between teff vs ragi

English

Alternative forms

• tef

Etymology

Borrowed from Amharic ?? (??ff).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?f/

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.

Coordinate terms

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

See also

• injera

Translations

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

From Amharic ?? (??ff).

Noun

teff m (invariable)

1. teff

Spanish

Noun

teff m (plural teffs)

1. teff

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?????i/

Etymology 1

From Kannada ???? (r?gi).

Alternative forms

• raggee
• raggy

Noun

ragi (uncountable)

1. A type of grain, Eleusine coracana, cultivated as a cereal in arid areas of Africa and Asia; finger millet.

   Synonyms: African finger millet, caracan millet, finger millet, koracan

Etymology 2

From Malay ragi (“fermenting medium, yeast”), from an Indian language such as Hindi ???? (r?g?, “finger millet”), since finger millet can be fermented. See Etymology 1.

Noun

ragi (uncountable)

1. (cooking, brewing) A type of yeast traditionally used in winemaking, baking, and brewing, now identified as Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

   Synonym: ragi yeast

   • 2005, Malaysia at Random, Didier Millet, page 30,

     Pound 5 kg of round ragi (yeast) and 5 pieces of thinly sliced ragi into powder. Mix ragi into cooled rice.

   • 2010, M.J. Robert Nout, Kofi E. Aidoo, 2: Asian Fungal Fermented Food, Martin Hofrichter (volume editor), Karl Esser (editor), The Mycota, Volume X: Industrial Applications, page 49,

     It is made from cooked gelatinised rice and red pulverised ragi (yeast cake or jui-piang) and fermented for up to 30 days at 25°C.

   • 2014, Florence Tan, Florence Tan: Best Nyonya Recipes, page 108,

     Finely ground and sifted round ragi yeast 3?4 tsp

Further reading

• Ragi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• A?r?, Gair, Riga, agri, agri-

Catalan

Verb

ragi

1. third-person singular imperative form of rajar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive form of rajar
3. first-person singular present subjunctive form of rajar

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ra?i]
• Hyphenation: ra?gi

Etymology 1

From Malay ragi, probably from Sanskrit ??? (r?ga, “seasoning, condiment”).

Noun

ragi (plural ragi-ragi, first-person possessive ragiku, second-person possessive ragimu, third-person possessive raginya)

1. (cooking) starter: a yeast culture used to start a fermentation process.
2. (cooking) ragi: a type of yeast traditionally used in winemaking, baking, and brewing, now identified as Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

   Synonym: fermen

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Malay ragi, from Sanskrit ??? (r?ga, “colour, dye”). Doublet of raga and ragam.

Noun

ragi (plural ragi-ragi, first-person possessive ragiku, second-person possessive ragimu, third-person possessive raginya)

1. (clothing) colour, color.

   Synonyms: warna, ragam

2. (clothing) pattern.

   Synonym: corak

Derived terms

Further reading

• “ragi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latvian

Noun

ragi m

1. nominative plural form of rags
2. vocative plural form of rags

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• argi (without metathesis)

Adjective

ragi

1. weak masculine nominative singular of ragr