Category: Food


Mamboyi is a colloquial term for alcoholic beverage, Old Buck.
Example

I only drink Mamboyi when I’m in the bundus.

MXhosa 30 December 2022
I’m Xhosa, isidovela is a meal where rice is cooked with potatoes in the same pot. You mix it until it kinda looks like pap. You also have to add Spice for rice or Rajah to make it yellow.
Example

Today I am cooking isidovela.

MXhosa 14 December 2022

A kasi term used to refer to food.
Example

I am starving, ke batla zozo.

I am starving, I want food.

DRex 03 November 2022
Fatcake filled with chicken livers, mince or vegetables
Example

Andiwuthandi lona umdundu.

Peekay 08 October 2022

Ukudla is the formal Zulu term for food.
Example

Ngifuna ukudla kwami.

I want my food.

LinguistZA 07 September 2022
Ukutya is the Xhosa formal term for food.
Example

Ndifuna ukutya kwam.

I want my food

LinguistZA 07 September 2022

A meal that is generally cooked on Sundays in many households across Mzansi.

It is coined as 7 colours because it comprises a lot of colourful ingredients; a mix of vegetables, starch and meat that make up various colours.
Example

I went home last weekend and my highlight was the 7 colours oledi cooked.

MXhosa 01 May 2022
Word meaning drink, any type of drink and mostly biased towards alcohol drinks.
Example

uspinza ini? What are you drinking?

Mntungwa 05 July 2021

Papsak is the foil container that's put inside a box of wine (3L or 5L). The term can be used to
refer to to cheap or low quality wine.
Example

We used to moer papsak when we were learning to drink.

Zet 14 June 2021
Masonja are Mopane worms that are mostly eaten in Limpopo.
Example

I would rather starve than to eat masonja.

Marawa 06 June 2021


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