gingelly

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gingelly

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From Hindi [Term?] or Marathi [Term?], ultimately from Arabic جِلْجِلَان (jiljilān).

noun gingellies

India, countable, uncountable The sesame plant. An experiment was carried out to study the effect of paper mill effluent on germination and growth behaviour of crops like maize, groundnut, sunflower, soyabean, black gram, green gram, gingelly [sesame] and castor beans in Tamil Nadu, India [date not given].

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@misc{gingelly_2026,
  title = {gingelly},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gingelly},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}