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saraka

saraka noun: a sweet, flat, and soft cake resembling mochi made with rice and a sweetener such as sugar and honey, originating from African American culture.

Noun

saraka (plural sarakas)

  1. A sweet, flat, and soft cake resembling mochi made with rice and a sweetener such as sugar and honey, originating from African American culture.
    • My mother made me saraka for Christmas.
    • She make funny flat cake she call 'saraka.'1940, Mary Granger, “Sapelo Island”, in Drums and Shadows

Forms of saraka

pluralsarakas

Origin of saraka

From an unknown West African language, from Arabic صَدَقَة (ṣadaqa). Although owners of enslaved African Americans suppressed Islam, a small number of cultural practices originating from Islam persisted in the US. The West African tradition of giving rice cakes as charity (related to their practice of Islam) survived among various African Americans.

Questions about saraka

What does saraka mean?
Saraka means a sweet, flat, and soft cake resembling mochi made with rice and a sweetener such as sugar and honey, originating from African American culture.
What part of speech is saraka?
Saraka is a noun.
What is the plural of saraka?
The plural of saraka is sarakas.

Words near saraka in the dictionary

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  6. saraka
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  8. Sarakolle
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  10. saralasin
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