Digga
Digga is a name used in Gulf and South Asian agarwood trade. The general referent can be stated: it is used to name a category of material, listed among the other material and wood-type names. The precise attribution is local, and a near-spelling, Dugga, is recorded in the same usage. This entry does not assert that the two names are the same and does not assert that they are different.
Spelling, language and market
The name is written in Latin script in trade documents, as Digga, and the Gulf usage carries the same letters in Arabic script. A near-spelling, Dugga, is written with a different vowel in the second letter. The two forms appear in the same lists and the records carry them without a note saying which is meant where. No trade body fixes an orthography, so a written form is evidence of the writer rather than of the material.
Attested usage
The name appears in lists of material types and in short descriptions of material offered for sale, usually with a qualifier attached — an area, a treatment, or a use. Sellers do not use it consistently, and the same word covers material described differently from one seller to the next. Where a purchase turns on what the word includes, the definition has to be obtained in writing from the counterparty.
Named examples and neighbouring spellings
Dugga is the near-spelling recorded in the same usage, and the neighbouring names in the same lists include Mori, Salla and Hindi Muri. Whether these are subdivisions of one name, or separate names, or spellings that different houses happen to use, is not established here. Three ordinary documents would settle it: the supplier's own written definition, a batch record in which one material carries both forms, and a quotation in which the two are used of different lots with the difference explained.
Alternative meanings
Outside the trade the same letters appear in South Asian personal names and in unrelated words in other languages, so a description carrying the name on its own may be read as a brand, a house name or a person. A short trade word of this kind may also denote a form, a treatment or a part rather than a category, and nothing in the letters rules that out.
What it does not prove
The name does not establish the species, the resin content, the oil yield, the age, the size or form of the material, or the country of origin. It establishes no grade, and it is not a protected designation: nothing prevents a seller from applying it to material from another origin. It establishes no relationship to Dugga in either direction.
This entry gives the general trade referent of the term and the near-spelling recorded with it. It does not establish the species, grading, composition, origin or quality of any material described with it, and it does not establish a synonymy between the two spellings.
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OudGuide editorial review · 2026-10-20
Reviewed against the cited sources for the general referent of the term, and checked for a question-specific answer. The precise attribution was checked against general trade usage rather than against a single market, and each entry states which parts are local rather than general.