sufuria

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sufuria

/sʊ.fʊˈrɪ.ə/ UK
/sʊ.fʊˈri.ə/ US

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Borrowed from Swahili sufuria, borrowed from Omani Arabic صفرية (ṣufriya, “cooking pot”), from صفر (“copper”) + ـية (-iyya).

noun sufurias

Africa, East A deep metal cooking pot with a flat base and no handles. 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.

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noun deep cooking pot

Kiswahili	sufuria

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@misc{sufuria_2026,
  title = {sufuria},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sufuria},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}