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‖ durra, dhurra|ˈdʊrə|
Also dourra, doura(h, dura, doora(h, durrah, dhourra.
[Arabic ðurah, ðurrah.]
A kind of corn, Indian Millet (Sorghum vulgare).
1798Malthus Popul. i. x. (1806) I. 214 A little flat cake of barley or dourra. 1832Veg. Subst. Food 117 Panicled Millet is the species most usually cultivated..In India it is called jovaree; in Egypt and Nubia dhourra. 1867Baker Nile Tribut. 77 The dhurra..is the grain most commonly used throughout the Soudan. 1876S. Manning Land of Pharaohs 67 Riding through some fields of doorah and vetch. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile vi. 140 The strip of cultivated soil, green with maize or tawny with doora. 1925Blackw. Mag. Sept. 423/2 Largesse was forthcoming in the shape of increased rations, both meat and dura. 1926Spectator 24 Apr. 757/1 The only agriculture carried on was the cultivation of ‘dura’. 1966C. Sweeney Scurrying Bush xii. 177 A man from the village of Korongo Tabanya was walking along a path..to his field of dura.
attrib.1834Penny Cycl. II. 212/1 Dates, durra-bread, and fish. 1883H. W. V. Stuart Egypt 27 Coarse, reed-like dourra straw. 1885Times 3 Jan. 12 The whole district is busy just now with the durrah harvest. |