nyama choma

noun

barbecued beef

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Meanings

nounnyama choma (uncountable)
  1. Kenyauncountablebarbecued beef

    Below are other words which were borrowed from Kiswahili[…]nyama choma [this is actually an incomplete version of nyama ya kuchoma (meat for roasting)]: roast meat

    [2007, Alfred Buregeya, “Aspects of the vocabulary of Kenyan English: an overview”, in Occasional Papers in Language and Linguistics, volume 3, pages 1–31
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    The meat sector is particularly developed in Arusha district and municipal council with increasing demand of meat by local people and a growing number of nyama choma businesses.

    2015 May 24, Antonio Allegretti et al., “Economic valuation of pastoral meat production system in Arusha region, Tanzania”, in African Journal of Economic Review, volume 4, number 2

Origin

From Swahili nyama ya kuchoma.

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