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Meaning of sufuria | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/sʊ.fʊˈrɪ.ə/

Definitions

A deep metal cooking pot with a flat base and no handles.

Africa, East

Examples

“Two large sufurias. For baking and roasting. Obtained from Zanzibar. Large enough to hold fry-pan mentioned above. / One small sufuria. For native servants. The only way to prevent the master's sufuria being used.”
“In a corner, he discovered a small amount of maize-flour in a bag among the utensils. He put this in a sufuria on a fire, added water and stirred it with a wooden spoon. He liked porridge in the morning.”
“The prefects, including the choir boy, had a separate table. Their food was even cooked separately, in a small sufuria the way it is done at home, [...]”
“Where there is no discipline, children do not perform well in their national examinations, for discipline is the mother of learning. Without it, imparting academic knowledge is like carefully boiling milk in a dirty, greasy sufuria.”
“A few days to uhuru, the local sufuria repairman, Bangarasio, was repairing my mother's sufurias.”
“Sometimes that lunch was in the form of three raw eggs and a sufuria because there were times Damiano thought it wise to cook in school during lunch hour. Come that hour and he would light a fire, break his eggs into the sufuria, fry them, eat them and then belch as if he had just demolished a six course buffet.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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