Swahili
choko
CHO-ko
How to say it
SwahilichokoCHO-kosoon
Englishovensoon
Frenchfoursoon
Meaning
(rare) an enclosed chamber used for baking or heating food, an oven.
Good to know
rare oven. chokoa, chokocha, chokora pick at, clear out, take out the contents (e.g. the meat of a coconut); stir up. - meno. pick the teeth. oppZ. chokolea
Examples
- Mkate ulioka ndani ya choko.The bread baked inside the oven.
- Choko kile kilijengwa kwa udongo.That oven was built out of clay.
- Bibi alitumia choko cha zamani kuoka mikate.Grandmother used an old oven to bake bread.
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