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tella

tella noun: a traditional beer from Ethiopia and Eritrea, brewed from various grains.

Noun

tella (uncountable)

  1. A traditional beer from Ethiopia and Eritrea, brewed from various grains.

Proper noun capitalized: Tella

Tella

  1. A female given name.

Forms of tella

alternative formtalla

Origin of tella

Borrowed from Amharic ጠላ (ṭälla).

Questions about tella

What does tella mean?
Tella means a traditional beer from Ethiopia and Eritrea, brewed from various grains.
What part of speech is tella?
Tella can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near tella in the dictionary

  1. tell-troth
  2. tell-troths
  3. tell-truth
  4. tell-truths
  5. tell-worthy
  6. tella
  7. tellability
  8. tellable
  9. Tellado
  10. Tellados
  11. tellane

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tella (page history and authors); Tella (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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