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kapana

kapana noun: barbecued meat, especially as street food.

Noun

kapana (countable and uncountable, plural kapanas)

  1. (Namibia, uncountable) barbecued meat, especially as street food.
  2. (Namibia, countable) A street food vendor.
    • In the Okakarara area in Namibia, relations between commercial food stores and the "kapanas," the traditional street vendors, seem to be good and they appear to act in a complementary fashion.2010, Advances in Food and Nutrition Research, page 236

Forms of kapana

pluralkapanas
alternative formokapana

Origin of kapana

From Ndonga okapana.

Questions about kapana

What does kapana mean?
Kapana means barbecued meat, especially as street food.
What part of speech is kapana?
Kapana is a noun.
What is the plural of kapana?
The plural of kapana is kapanas.

Words near kapana in the dictionary

  1. Kapalua
  2. Kapaluhan
  3. Kapampangan
  4. Kapampangans
  5. Kapan
  6. kapana
  7. kapanas
  8. Kapangan
  9. Kaparasanan
  10. kaparot
  11. kaparoth

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