cooja
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Hindi कूज़ा (kūzā), from Persian کوزه (kuza).
Noun edit
cooja (plural coojas)
- (India) A wide-mouthed earthenware vessel for water.
- 1856, The Bombay Quarterly Review[1], volume IV, Bonbay: Smith, Taylor and Co., page 290:
- Let us take a peep into the bechoba. All hushed and quiet. A piece of camp able close to the tent wall, and on it a tumbler of cocoanut [sic] oil, with a lighted wick floating on the surface. Here, also, a watch, a cheroot case, and cooja of drinking-water standing on a broken soup-plate.
Further reading edit
- Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “cooja”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 248.