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umqombothi

umqombothi noun: a beer made from maize, maize malt, sorghum malt, yeast and water, commonly found in South Africa.

Noun

umqombothi (uncountable)

  1. A beer made from maize, maize malt, sorghum malt, yeast and water, commonly found in South Africa.
    • He notes that South Africa has a traditional beer called umqombothi brewed from sorghum, a grain in the millet family.[2023 July 6, Maria C. Hunt, “Could an ancient, climate-friendly crop be the future of beer?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Origin of umqombothi

Borrowed from Xhosa.

Questions about umqombothi

What does umqombothi mean?
Umqombothi means a beer made from maize, maize malt, sorghum malt, yeast and water, commonly found in South Africa.
What part of speech is umqombothi?
Umqombothi is a noun.

Words near umqombothi in the dictionary

  1. umpty
  2. umpty-ump
  3. umpty-umpth
  4. umpy
  5. umqan
  6. umqombothi
  7. umra
  8. umrah
  9. umrahs
  10. umras
  11. ums

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