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nyama choma

nyama choma noun: barbecued beef.

Noun

nyama choma (uncountable)

  1. (Kenya) barbecued beef
    • Below are other words which were borrowed from Kiswahili[…]nyama choma [this is actually an incomplete version of nyama ya kuchoma (meat for roasting)]: roast meat[2007, Alfred Buregeya, “Aspects of the vocabulary of Kenyan English: an overview”, in Occasional Papers in Language and Linguistics, volume 3, pages 1–31
    • The meat sector is particularly developed in Arusha district and municipal council with increasing demand of meat by local people and a growing number of nyama choma businesses.2015 May 24, Antonio Allegretti et al., “Economic valuation of pastoral meat production system in Arusha region, Tanzania”, in African Journal of Economic Review, volume 4, number 2

Origin of nyama choma

From Swahili nyama ya kuchoma.

Questions about nyama choma

What does nyama choma mean?
Nyama choma means barbecued beef.
What part of speech is nyama choma?
Nyama choma is a noun.

Words near nyama choma in the dictionary

  1. Nyah West
  2. Nyakyusa
  3. nyala
  4. nyalas
  5. nyam
  6. nyama choma
  7. Nyambolo
  8. nyami
  9. nyamis
  10. nyamivirus
  11. nyammed

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