Kitchen vocabulary in Luchazi
Kitchen vocabulary in Luchazi
Here is a list of
common kitchen vocabulary in Luchazi and their meanings in English, categorized
for easy learning:
Kitchen areas and features in Luchazi language
- Ntsenge = kitchen; a place or room in a home in which food is prepared and cooked.
- Coto = a space where a domestic fire is lite for cooking or heating.
- Coto ca zindoho = stove.
- Coto ca ku-ocela = oven or grill.
- Vutala = shelf.
- Hondo ya viakulia = food store.
- Hondo ya ku tulikila = pantry.
- Katambo = dish rack.
- Likina = millstone.
Cookware in Luchazi language
- Cikango = frying pan or a shallow pan with a long handle for frying food.
- Vikango (plural) = frying pans.
- Civela = kettle or urn or a container with a lid, spout and handle in which water is boiled.
- Vivela (plural) = kettles or urns.
- Ndoho = pot or any deep round container in which soups and stews are cooked.
- Zindoho (plural) = pots.
- Poto = large pot or cauldron.
- Cifuiko = lid or cover of a vessel or container.
- Vifuiko (plural) = lids; covers.
- Cimamo = serving spoon.
- Vimamo (plural) = serving spoons.
- Ciko = cooking stick.
- Viko (plural) = cooking sticks.
Kitchen utensils in Luchazi language
Here is a list of common
kitchen utensils including traditional kitchen utensils and other items used to
prepare or cook food in Luchazi language and their meanings in English. This
includes all hand-held tools for cooking.
- Citenga = utensil.
- Vitenga (plural) = utensils.
- Mpoko = Knife.
- Cini = mortar.
- Muisi = pestle.
- Musalo = sieve.
- Ku sala = to sieve.
- Musalo ua kandanda = cylindrical reed sieve.
- Lisehua = winnowing basket.
- Ciseya = basin.
- Cienjo = bucket.
- Ntsuua = calabash.
- Ntsuua ya mukonga = a narrow-necked calabash.
- Mbangu = bark barrel.
- Ngululu = a cylindrical utensil made of inner bark fibre, open at both ends used for protecting meal flour from being blown away while sieving into a receptacle.
- Cendeko = a large, wide bowl-like basket which can be used as a winnowing receptacle or for holding grain.
Tableware and traditional serve ware in Luchazi
- Lilonga = plate.
- Malonga (plural) = plates.
- Vuma = chinaware; ceramic; earthen.
- Lilonga lia vuma = chinaware plate or earthenware plate.
- Malonga a vuma (plural) = chinaware plates or earthenware plates.
- Cihele = a basket bowl made from fibre for holding or serving cooked food.
- Cihele ca ntsala = a basket bowl made from fibre with a bottom stand.
- Citaya = a gourd bowl.
- Nguto = spoon.
- Zinguto (plural) = spoons.
- Ngalufu = fork.
- Zingalufu (plural) = forks.
- Vitenga mua ku nuina = drinking vessels.
- Ngandza = cup.
- Zingandza (plural) = cups.
- Ngandza ya vuma = chinaware cup.
- Zingandza zia vuma (plural)= chinaware cups
- Ngandza ya ntavula = cup made from a gourd used to drink alcoholic beverages.
- Ngandza ya linionge = a drinking cup made from a gourd.
- Mulondo = clay jar
- Njava = jar.
- Ntsazi = flask.
- Ngalafua = bottle; leather bottle.
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