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coojah

coojah is the alternative form of cooja.

Meaning of cooja

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 coojah

pluralcoojahs

Questions about coojah

What is coojah the alternative form of?
Coojah is the alternative form of cooja.

Words near coojah in the dictionary

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

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