kabichi

How to say it

Meaning

A vegetable with thick green or purple leaves packed tightly into a round head, eaten cooked or raw. It is grown widely in the cool highlands of East Africa.

Good to know

N class, same form in the plural: kabichi moja, kabichi mbili. A loan from English; red cabbage is kabichi nyekundu.

Examples

• Mama alipika kabichi na nyama kwa chakula cha jioni.Mother cooked cabbage with meat for dinner.
• Wakulima wa Lushoto hulima kabichi kwa wingi.The farmers of Lushoto grow a lot of cabbage.
• Kabichi moja inauzwa shilingi elfu moja sokoni.One cabbage sells for a thousand shillings at the market.

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