ዕንጐት

Noun

 * 1) mountain plum (Ximenia americana)

Usage notes
In dictionaries it is, oblivious to the circumstance that it disharmonizes with the occurrence in the Book of the Mysteries of the Heaven and the Earth amongst the fruits Adam had in paradise, given as “mandrake” because in the it is employed to translate, a plant widespread in the Mediterranean but hardly Ethiopia, and alternatively “citron” because glossed in a Geʿez-Amharic vocabulary with , which is of little authority considering that even the 1957 🇨🇬 Bible translates  in the  7 and 8 with , and the same yet glosses with another plant-name , in  a hapax on first glance, but Dillmann adds that he does not know whether it is to be equated to , a word in the 19th century understood roughly as “wild plum” or even “apple” (so , who no less tries to etymologize the Amharic word as containing a preformant treated at ), however it seems to be even the cognate to the Geʿez word since the word  variates with a labial , both now known as Ximenia americana, though used to roughly translate the European concepts of a “plum”.