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chufa

chufa noun: cyperus esculentus, a species of sedge native to warm temperate to subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere having small edible tubers (tiger nuts).

Noun

chufa (countable and uncountable, plural chufas)

  1. Cyperus esculentus, a species of sedge native to warm temperate to subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere having small edible tubers (tiger nuts).
    • Chufa is most popular in two places in the Mediterranean, Spain and Egypt (especially around Damietta). In Spain, especially in the region of Valencia, chufa is used to make a drink called horchata.2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables, Harvard Common Press, →ISBN, page 119
    • The chinese water chestnut and the tiger nut, or chufa, are both members of the sedge family, a group of water grasses that includes papyrus.2004, Harold McGee, chapter 6, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    chufa sedge, yellow nutsedge, tigernut sedge, earthalmond

chufa meaning in Tamil and Arabic

chufa in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், தாவரங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

chufa in Arabic

Cyperus esculentus
حَبّ الْعَزِيز ḥabb al-ʕazīz, حَبّ الزَلَم ḥabb az-zalam

Synonyms of chufa

  • chufa sedge
  • yellow nutsedge
  • tigernut sedge
  • earthalmond

Forms of chufa

pluralchufas

Origin of chufa

Borrowed from Spanish chufa, possibly from Latin cȳphi (“gallingale perfume”), from Ancient Greek κῦφι (kûphi, “a kind of Egyptian incense”), from Egyptian kꜣpt (“incense”), a nominal derivative of kꜣp (“to cense”).

Questions about chufa

What does chufa mean?
Chufa means cyperus esculentus, a species of sedge native to warm temperate to subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere having small edible tubers (tiger nuts).
What is chufa in Tamil?
Chufa in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், தாவரங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Chufa meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is chufa?
Chufa is a noun.
What is the plural of chufa?
The plural of chufa is chufas.

Words near chufa in the dictionary

  1. Chudskoye
  2. Chudy
  3. Chudys
  4. chuet
  5. chuets
  6. chufa
  7. chufas
  8. chuff
  9. chuffed
  10. chuffily
  11. chuffiness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chufa (page history and authors); chufa (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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