ቡና

Amharic

Etymology

Suffixed from ቡን (bunn, “coffee”)

Noun

ቡና • (bunna) ?

coffee

Descendants

→ Afar: buna
→ Awngi: bunnoa
→ Kafa: buno
→ Oromo: buna
→ Sidamo: buna
→ Waata: bunna
→ Wolaytta: bunna

References

Beke, Charles Tilstone (1852) “Note [on] the History of Coffee”, in Journal of the Statistical Society of London, volume XV, pages 57–58
Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 920b

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