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awaze

/ɑˈwɑ.zeɪ/

awaze noun: a spicy sauce or paste, made with chili peppers and usually reddish in colour, used in Ethiopian and Eritrean cuisine.

Noun

awaze (uncountable)

  1. A spicy sauce or paste, made with chili peppers and usually reddish in colour, used in Ethiopian and Eritrean cuisine.
    • Today her short fingernails are tinged yellow from turmeric, on the back of her wrist a dot of awaze, the red pepper paste gleaming like fresh blood.2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 21

Origin of awaze

From Amharic አዋዜ (ʾäwaze).

Questions about awaze

What does awaze mean?
Awaze means a spicy sauce or paste, made with chili peppers and usually reddish in colour, used in Ethiopian and Eritrean cuisine.
What part of speech is awaze?
Awaze is a noun.
How do you pronounce awaze?
Awaze is pronounced /ɑˈwɑ.zeɪ/.

Words near awaze in the dictionary

  1. awayed
  2. awaying
  3. awayness
  4. aways
  5. awayward
  6. awaze
  7. AWB
  8. Awbrey
  9. Awbreys
  10. AWBs
  11. AWD

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