umngqusho
English
Noun
umngqusho (uncountable)
- A Bantu dish of maize and vegetables.
- 2004, Wanda Cobb Finnen, Talking Drums: Reading and Writing with African American Stories, Spirituals, and Multimedia Resources, page 146:
- Research umngqusho, a South African dish and reportedly the favorite food of Nelson Mandela. Discuss the process of preparing umngqusho.
- 2009 August 13, Celean Jacobson, “Cultural heart of Jo'burg”, in Toronto Star:
- There are traditional dishes such as Mopani worms, mogodu or unbleached tripe; and umngqusho, which is braised beef shin with maize porridge, billed as former President Nelson Mandela's favourite dish.
- 2011, Xoliswa Ndoyiya, Ukutya Kwasekhaya: Tastes from Nelson Mandela's Kitchen, page 49:
- In many Xhosa households, Wednesday is umngqusho day. It's the way we all grew up. Like Fridays in the Eastern Cape are always dumplings with meat day.
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Xhosa
Etymology
From um- + -ngqusha + -o.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [úḿ̩ŋǃṳ̌ːʃo]
Noun
úḿngqúsho class 3 (plural ímíngqúsho class 4)
- samp
Inflection
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