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suferia

suferia noun: a type of cooking pot popular in East Africa.

Noun

suferia (plural suferias)

  1. A type of cooking pot popular in East Africa.
    • I started coffee as Philip stirred breakfast to keep the eggs from burning on the bottom of the thin aluminum suferia (cooking put).2009 May 27, Anthony Deland, Houses of Clay: A White Boy's Adventure in Africa, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, →ISBN, pages 37–38
    • They kept watch, boiled chai in the suferia, and tried, constantly to make Simi open her mouth to drink, to swallow, to take the small sustenance that the sugar and tea and milk might give her.2018 March 20, Adrienne Benson, The Brightest Sun: A Novel, Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN

Forms of suferia

pluralsuferias

Origin of suferia

From Swahili [Term?], some consider it an example of translanguaging.

Questions about suferia

What does suferia mean?
Suferia means a type of cooking pot popular in East Africa.
What part of speech is suferia?
Suferia is a noun.
What is the plural of suferia?
The plural of suferia is suferias.

Words near suferia in the dictionary

  1. Suf.
  2. sufadoxine
  3. SUFC
  4. Sufeism
  5. sufentanil
  6. suferia
  7. suferias
  8. Sufetula
  9. suff'ring
  10. suff.
  11. suffect

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