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teff

/tɛf/

teff noun: a love grass, Eragrostis tef, with small seeds, grown as a cereal and for forage in Ethiopia and parts of Arabia.

teff: a love grass, Eragrostis tef, with small seeds, grown as a cereal and for forage in Ethiopia and...
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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.
    • She begs the cook to help lift the bags of teff and check their weight.2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 23

teff meaning in Tamil

teff in Tamil

புரதமிகு தினைவகை

Forms of teff

pluralteffs
alternative formtef

Origin of teff

Borrowed from Amharic ጤፍ (ṭēff).

Words that rhyme with teff

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Questions about teff

What does teff mean?
Teff means a love grass, Eragrostis tef, with small seeds, grown as a cereal and for forage in Ethiopia and parts of Arabia.
What is teff in Tamil?
Teff in Tamil is புரதமிகு தினைவகை. See Teff meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is teff?
Teff is a noun.
How do you pronounce teff?
Teff is pronounced /tɛf/.
What is the plural of teff?
The plural of teff is teffs.

Words near teff in the dictionary

  1. Tefaro
  2. tefazoline
  3. tefenperate
  4. Tefera
  5. Teferas
  6. teff
  7. Teffont
  8. Teffont Evias
  9. Teffont Magna
  10. teffs
  11. Tefft

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Adapted from Wiktionary: teff (page history and authors); teff (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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