A Hausa botanical vocabulary

by J. M. Dalziel

idon hawanya, with a large grain concealed in the husk;

haḳorin machiji (North of Kano), a long spike with abundant hard very small grains;

zango, with a very long fruiting spike;

zamfaruwa; bazaume or bazarme (a corruption of Ba-Zabarme);

girgera or gargasa, a white-grained variety like maiwa, but considered one of the best or most elegant (= farin gero or geron Adar, because common in French territory);

ba anguri (East Hausa), the same as or a near variety to girgera;

tarnekuwa; wuyan bajimi, a short thick spike with hard grain and much chaff;

tamangaji, a variety with pointed grains;

lawur, a short variety quickly ripe;

shibra or shura (Pennisetum Benthamii, Steud. var.?), a short and thin-stemmed variety early maturing; (also applied to infertile spikes not maturing, stripped while young and used in kunu or soup, &c.).