suferia

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noun

A type of cooking pot popular in East Africa.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

nounsuferia (plural suferias)

plural suferias

  1. A type of cooking pot popular in East Africa.

    I started coffee as Philip stirred breakfast to keep the eggs from burning on the bottom of the thin aluminum suferia (cooking put).

    2009 May 27, Anthony Deland, Houses of Clay: A White Boy's Adventure in Africa, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, →ISBN, pages 37–38
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    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.

    2018 March 20, Adrienne Benson, The Brightest Sun: A Novel, Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN

    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 January 28, Mahmood Mamdani, When Victims Become Killers:Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 3

    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

    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

Origin

  1. Swahili[Term?]
  2. Englishsuferia

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

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APA

suferia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suferia

MLA

“suferia.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suferia. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “suferia,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suferia.

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