sufuria
/sʊ.fʊˈri.ə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Two large sufurias. For baking and roasting. Obtained from Zanzibar. Large enough to hold fry-pan mentioned above. / One small sufuria. For native servants. The only way to prevent the master's sufuria being used."
- "In a corner, he discovered a small amount of maize-flour in a bag among the utensils. He put this in a sufuria on a fire, added water and stirred it with a wooden spoon. He liked porridge in the morning."
- "The prefects, including the choir boy, had a separate table. Their food was even cooked separately, in a small sufuria the way it is done at home, [...]"
- "Where there is no discipline, children do not perform well in their national examinations, for discipline is the mother of learning. Without it, imparting academic knowledge is like carefully boiling milk in a dirty, greasy sufuria."
- "A few days to uhuru, the local sufuria repairman, Bangarasio, was repairing my mother's sufurias."
- "Sometimes that lunch was in the form of three raw eggs and a sufuria because there were times Damiano thought it wise to cook in school during lunch hour. Come that hour and he would light a fire, break his eggs into the sufuria, fry them, eat them and then belch as if he had just demolished a six course buffet."
Etymology
Etymology tree Arabic صُفْر (ṣufr) Omani Arabic صفر Omani Arabic ـية (-iyya) Omani Arabic صفرية (ṣufriya)bor. Swahili sufuriabor. English sufuria Borrowed from Swahili sufuria, borrowed from Omani Arabic صفرية (ṣufriya, “cooking pot”), from صفر (“copper”) + ـية (-iyya).
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /sʊ.fʊˈri.ə/
- British English: /sʊ.fʊˈrɪ.ə/