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cooja

cooja noun: a wide-mouthed earthenware vessel for water.

Noun

cooja (plural coojas)

  1. (India) A wide-mouthed earthenware vessel for water.
    • Let us take a peep into the bechoba. All hushed and quiet. A piece of camp able close to the tent wall, and on it a tumbler of cocoanut [sic] oil, with a lighted wick floating on the surface. Here, also, a watch, a cheroot case, and cooja of drinking-water standing on a broken soup-plate.1856, The Bombay Quarterly Review, volume IV, Bonbay: Smith, Taylor and Co., page 290

Forms of cooja

pluralcoojas
alternative formcoojah
alternative formkoojah
alternative formkooza
alternative formkuza

Origin of cooja

From Hindi कूज़ा (kūzā), from Persian کوزه (kuza).

Questions about cooja

What does cooja mean?
Cooja means a wide-mouthed earthenware vessel for water.
What part of speech is cooja?
Cooja is a noun.
What is the plural of cooja?
The plural of cooja is coojas.

Words near cooja in the dictionary

  1. cooing
  2. cooingly
  3. cooings
  4. cooish
  5. cooishes
  6. cooja
  7. coojah
  8. coojahs
  9. Coojar
  10. coojas
  11. coojong

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