sorghum

Etymology
From genus name, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) A cereal, Sorghum genus and species, the grains of which are cultivated to make flour and feed cattle. Almost all cultivated ones as well as some wild ones belong to the species  (syn. ).
 * 2) * 1936, Harry Nelson Vinall, Joseph Charlworth Stephens, John Holmes Martin, Identification, History, and Distribution of Common Sorghum Varieties, US Department of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin No. 506, page 2,
 * The sorghum crop has four uses — forage, grain, sirup, and industrial (such as the manufacture of brooms, wallboard, etc.).
 * 1) * 1978, US Department of Agriculture, Watch out for witchweed, a serious pest of corn, sorghum, and other crops, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Program Number 1212, unnumbered page,
 * Witchweed (Striga spp.) is a parasitic plant that attacks corn, sorghum, sugarcane, rice, and more than 60 different species of the grass family.
 * 1) * 2008, Lamissa Diakité, Amadou Sidibé, Melinda Smale, Mikkel Grum, Seed Value Chains for Sorghum and Millet in Mali: A State-based System in Transition, International Food Policy Research Institute, Discussion Paper 00749, page 2,
 * Archaeological evidence suggests that economies based on cattle, goats, sorghum, and pearl millet were established in this region between 5,000 and 3,000 years ago (Smith 1998).
 * 1)  Sorghum syrup.
 * 1)  Sorghum syrup.

Synonyms

 * ; ; mtama ; durra ; juar, jowar, cholam ; kaoliang ; milo

Translations

 * Amharic: ማሽላ
 * Arabic: ذُرَة, سرغوم
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: জোৱাৰ
 * Bulgarian: со́рго, двуцветно просо
 * Catalan:, sorgo
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 高粱, 高粱粟
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: durra
 * Dhivehi: ދޮނަޅަ
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: sorgo
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Fula: lacceeri, mbayeeri
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: სორგო
 * German:, , Sorghumhirse
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: જુવાર
 * Hausa: dawa
 * Hawaiian: kouloena
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:, , ソルガム
 * Kannada:
 * Kikuyu: mũhĩa
 * Korean:
 * Kwanyama: olulyavala
 * Latvian:
 * Maay: ambulo
 * Macedonian: сирак
 * Malay: betari
 * Malayalam:
 * Manchu: ᡧᡠᡧᡠ
 * Marathi: ज्वारी
 * Norwegian: durra
 * Persian: سورگوم,, ذرت‌خوشه,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਜਵਾਰ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Sindhi: جوئر
 * Slovak: cirok
 * Slovene: sirek
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: batad
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Tigre: ማሼላ
 * Tigrinya: መሸላ.
 * Tày: khẩu cạ
 * Ukrainian: сорго
 * Urdu: جوار
 * Vietnamese: mộc mạch,
 * Welsh: sorgwm
 * Western Panjabi:
 * Yiddish: סאָרגע
 * Zarma: haamo
 * ǃXóõ: bāhle