Meanings
plural bereles
- A flask-like glass vessel with a bulbous body and a narrow neck typically used for serving tej.
Opened in October, the tasting room features semi-sweet and semi-dry honey wine in [sic] served in either wine glasses or a large Ethiopian glass drinking vessel called a berele.
2024 January 10, Lenore Adkins, “Ethiopian Honey Wine Gets the Royal Treatment at Negus Winery and Meadery in Alexandria”, in Eater DC, archived from the original on 03 Mar 20241 more example
Filtered into bottles and served in small berele, bulbous, narrow-necked flasks, the cloudy-gold brew tastes simultaneously sweet and pungent.[…]¶ Thus 1 or 2 cups can easily get you dizzy, especially if using berele to drink it.[…]Thus, if tasting tej in berele for the first time, make sure to stand up every once in a while to check if you're feeling too dizzy to walk.
2019 February 15, Yohanis Gebreyesus, Ethiopia: Recipes and Traditions from the Horn of Africa, Interlink Books, →ISBN, page 345
Origin
- Amharicብርሌ
- Englishberele
Borrowed from Amharic ብርሌ (bərle).
More words from Amharic
Full word history & related roots →Rhymes & wordplay
Anagrams
Cite this entry
berele. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/berele
“berele.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/berele. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “berele,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/berele.
Source: berele on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.