Etymology

waakye

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Today it means: A Ghanaian dish of cooked rice and beans. Full definition →

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Derived from the last word of the Hausa phrase shinkafa da wake (“rice and beans”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.