suferia

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Swahili [Term?],[1] some consider it an example of translanguaging.[2]

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Noun[edit]

suferia (plural suferias)

  1. A type of cooking pot popular in East Africa.
    • 2009 May 27, Anthony Deland, Houses of Clay: A White Boy's Adventure in Africa, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, →ISBN, pages 37–38:
      I started coffee as Philip stirred breakfast to keep the eggs from burning on the bottom of the thin aluminum suferia (cooking put).
    • 2018 March 20, Adrienne Benson, The Brightest Sun: A Novel, Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN:
      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.
    • 2020 January 28, Mahmood Mamdani, When Victims Become Killers:Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 3:
      I peered inside and saw a pile of belongings—should sacks, tattered clothing, a towel, a wooden box, a suferia (cooking pot), plastic mugs and plates, straw mats and hats—the worldly goods of the poor.
    • 2020 October 19, Amanda Nicole Gulla, Molly Hamilton Sherman, Inquiry-Based Learning Through the Creative Arts for Teachers and Teacher Educators, Springer International Publishing, →ISBN, page 102:
      I am from Togo born after Communism / the sound of donuts frying in the morning / and oatmeal being stirred over the fire and under the stars / in the extra large suferia

References[edit]

  1. ^ Trzebinski, Errol (1994 November 8) The Lives of Beryl Markham, W.W. Norton, →ISBN, page xiii
  2. ^ Gulla, Amanda Nicole, Sherman, Molly Hamilton (2020 October 19) Inquiry-Based Learning Through the Creative Arts for Teachers and Teacher Educators, Springer International Publishing, →ISBN, page 102