kapana

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noun

barbecued meat, especially as street food.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounkapana (countable and uncountable, plural kapanas)

plural kapanas · alternative okapana

  1. Namibiauncountablebarbecued meat, especially as street food.
  2. NamibiacountableA street food vendor.

    In the Okakarara area in Namibia, relations between commercial food stores and the "kapanas," the traditional street vendors, seem to be good and they appear to act in a complementary fashion.

    2010, Advances in Food and Nutrition Research, page 236

Origin

  1. Ndongaokapana
  2. Englishkapana

From Ndonga okapana.

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