Note 274 — THE PLEASANT HISTORY OF THE COCK AND THE FOX.
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
“Durà” in MS. (p. 718) for “Zurà,” the classical term, or for “Zurrah,” pop. pronounced “Durrah” = the Holcus Sativus before noticed, an African as well as Asiatic growth, now being supplanted by maize and rice.