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berele

berele noun: a flask-like glass vessel with a bulbous body and a narrow neck typically used for serving tej.

Noun

berele (plural berele or bereles)

  1. A flask-like glass vessel with a bulbous body and a narrow neck typically used for serving tej.
    • Filtered into bottles and served in small berele, bulbous, narrow-necked flasks, the cloudy-gold brew tastes simultaneously sweet and pungent.[…]¶ Thus 1 or 2 cups can easily get you dizzy, especially if using berele to drink it.[…]Thus, if tasting tej in berele for the first time, make sure to...2019 February 15, Yohanis Gebreyesus, Ethiopia: Recipes and Traditions from the Horn of Africa, Interlink Books, →ISBN, page 345
    • Opened in October, the tasting room features semi-sweet and semi-dry honey wine in [sic] served in either wine glasses or a large Ethiopian glass drinking vessel called a berele.2024 January 10, Lenore Adkins, “Ethiopian Honey Wine Gets the Royal Treatment at Negus Winery and Meadery in Alexandria”, in Eater DC, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2024

Forms of berele

pluralberele
pluralbereles

Origin of berele

Borrowed from Amharic ብርሌ (bərle).

Questions about berele

What does berele mean?
Berele means a flask-like glass vessel with a bulbous body and a narrow neck typically used for serving tej.
What part of speech is berele?
Berele is a noun.
What is the plural of berele?
The plural of berele is berele.

Words near berele in the dictionary

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  2. Bereitschaftspotential
  3. Bereitschaftspotentials
  4. Berek
  5. Berel
  6. berele
  7. Beremboke
  8. beremeal
  9. Berenbaum
  10. Berenbaums
  11. berend

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