chungu

How to say it

Meaning

a rounded clay cooking pot used for preparing food over a fire.

Good to know

plural vyungu; the making of such pots is kufinyanga vyungu (pottery). The same word also has unrelated senses: ant, and bitter.

Examples

• Mama anapika ugali kwenye chungu.Mother is cooking ugali in a clay pot.
• Chungu kile kimepasuka.That clay pot has cracked.
• Hukuosha vyungu jana?Didn't you wash the pots yesterday?
• Bibi atatengeneza chungu kipya kwa udongo.Grandmother will make a new pot out of clay.