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sukuma wiki

sukuma wiki noun: an East African dish of greens (especially collard greens) simmered with tomatoes.

sukuma wiki: an East African dish of greens (especially collard greens) simmered with tomatoes
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Noun

sukuma wiki (uncountable)

  1. An East African dish of greens (especially collard greens) simmered with tomatoes.
  2. collard greens

Origin of sukuma wiki

Borrowed from Swahili sukuma wiki (literally “to push the week”), from sukuma + wiki. The vegetable is generally affordable and available all-year round in East Africa. It forms part of the staple dish in this region together with ugali.

Questions about sukuma wiki

What does sukuma wiki mean?
Sukuma wiki means an East African dish of greens (especially collard greens) simmered with tomatoes.
What part of speech is sukuma wiki?
Sukuma wiki is a noun.

Words near sukuma wiki in the dictionary

  1. Suku
  2. sukuinage
  3. sukuk
  4. sukuks
  5. Sukuma
  6. sukuma wiki
  7. Sukumar
  8. Sukumas
  9. sukumawiki
  10. sukumizu
  11. sukun

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sukuma wiki (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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