Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

katogo

/kɑˈtoʊɡoʊ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ka-to-go
IPA: /kɑˈtoʊɡoʊ/

11

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A traditional breakfast dish consisting of a sauce containing legumes and offal to which a staple such as cassava or matoke (“mashed boiled bananas or plantains”) is added, all cooked in the same pot.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Katogo is a dish made of bananas and beans mashed together."
"For the child's third (and preferably fourth) meal, the D.S.M. can be mixed into katogo or mugoyo (beans cooked with plantain or sweet potato respectively), or into maize porridge (bwuji), or into mashed pawpaw, or into any cold food that is left over."
"Cassava mixed with beans (katogo or nyoyo) cost the same but plain cassava with salt cost as little as one shilling a plate."
"We have matooke and chicken, / Potatoes with smoked fish / Mingled into groundnuts sauce, / Cassava and beans mingled together … / Katogo."
"Surely, a country cannot be run Katogo (mixed grill) style."
"Katogo is that meal, a Ugandan delicacy, prepared from a mixture of foodstuffs like matooke, cassava, beans, greens, meat etc."

Etymology

Borrowed from Bantu katogo (“casserole, pot; stew”); while one author suggests the word is derived from Luganda, another has been suggested it is not possible to identify the specific Bantu language as the word is found in several of them.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /kɑˈtoʊɡoʊ/
British English: /kɑˈtoʊɡoʊ/

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

How do you pronounce katogo?: The recorded pronunciation is /kɑˈtoʊɡoʊ/.
What does katogo mean?: A traditional breakfast dish consisting of a sauce containing legumes and offal to which a staple such as cassava or matoke (“mashed boiled bananas or plantains”) is added, all cooked in the same pot.
Where does katogo come from?: Borrowed from Bantu katogo (“casserole, pot; stew”); while one author suggests the word is derived from Luganda, another has been suggested it is not possible to identify the specific Bantu language as the word is found in several of them.

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