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kamut

kamut noun: a commercial cultivar of Khorasan wheat.

Noun

kamut (uncountable)

  1. A commercial cultivar of Khorasan wheat.
    • If you hear the name Kamut get excited. It's wheat. Yes, there are thousands of wheats, all members of the triticum family, but Kamut is different. It's 4,000 years old.1999, Steve Meyerowitz, Sprouts, the Miracle Food: The Complete Guide to Sprouting, Sproutman Publications, →ISBN, page 75

Forms of kamut

alternative formKamut

Origin of kamut

Taken from kamut, a transcription found in E. A. Wallis Budge's dictionary (where it was translated as "wheat") of Egyptian kꜣmwtt (“ear of barley”), in hieroglyphic form: k-A-m-w-t:t-M2:Z2-

Questions about kamut

What does kamut mean?
Kamut means a commercial cultivar of Khorasan wheat.
What part of speech is kamut?
Kamut is a noun.

Words near kamut in the dictionary

  1. Kamtschadale
  2. Kamtschadales
  3. kamui
  4. kamuning
  5. Kamunting
  6. kamut
  7. kamuy
  8. kamwarri
  9. Kamyshin
  10. Kamyshlov
  11. kamāncha

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