In Ethiopia and Eritrea, the terms Tukrīr (Amharic) and Tukrir (Tigrinya[a]) are used to designate persons of West or Central African origin.
The terms derives from the city and kingdom of Takrūr that thrived on the lower Senegal River in the eleventh century.
The nisba al-Takrūrī was a common surname for one of West African descent.
[1] The Tukrīr primarily inhabit the western edge of the Ethiopian Highlands.
[1] In the 19th century there was a Tukrīr sheikhdom with its capital at Metemma, sometimes owing tribute to Ethiopia and at other times to Egypt.