Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chufa

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: chu-fa
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Cyperus esculentus, a species of sedge native to warm temperate to subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere having small edible tubers (tiger nuts).

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Chufa is most popular in two places in the Mediterranean, Spain and Egypt (especially around Damietta). In Spain, especially in the region of Valencia, chufa is used to make a drink called horchata."
"The chinese water chestnut and the tiger nut, or chufa, are both members of the sedge family, a group of water grasses that includes papyrus."

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chufa, possibly from Latin cȳphi (“gallingale perfume”), from Ancient Greek κῦφι (kûphi, “a kind of Egyptian incense”), from Egyptian kꜣpt (“incense”), a nominal derivative of kꜣp (“to cense”).

Origin

Source language: Spanish

Word Breakdown

Root: chufa, cȳphi, κῦφι, kꜣpt

Usage

Inflected Forms

chufas (plural)

Synonyms

chufa sedge yellow nutsedge tigernut sedge earthalmond yellow nutgrass earth almond ground almond rush nut cyperus esculentus

Questions

What does chufa mean?: Cyperus esculentus, a species of sedge native to warm temperate to subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere having small edible tubers (tiger nuts).
Where does chufa come from?: It is traced to Spanish.

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