pombo

How to say it

Meaning

a leafy vegetable, or a thick vegetable gruel used to thicken gravies.

Good to know

(in gen.) the leaf of any plant used as a vegetable; pombo (a kind of vegetable gruel used to thicken gravies)

Examples

• Mama alichuma pombo shambani kwa ajili ya mchuzi.Mother picked pombo leaves in the field for the stew.
• Je, pombo hii inapikwaje?How is this vegetable cooked?
• Hatukuwa na pombo ya kutosha mchuzini.We did not have enough thickening gruel in the stew.
• Alikoroga pombo ndani ya mchuzi kuufanya mzito.She stirred the gruel into the stew to thicken it.