fufu
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From West African languages such as Ewe, fufú (“white-white”).
Noun edit
fufu (uncountable)
- A dish of boiled, mashed cassava mixed with plantain, yams, or other starchy vegetables, common as food in West and Equatorial Africa and the Caribbean, and sometimes sold in dry powdered or granulated form.
- [1987 July 29, Steven Barboza, “Culinary Delights of Africa Reflect a Continent's Diversity”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- Africans generally serve highly seasoned stews with a starch - corn, millet, yams, cassava or rice - which they mash and whip to a paste, called fufu in West Africa. This is topped with a sauce known as palava.]
- 2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 192:
- “I want some real food,” Binta angrily said. “Like fufu and egusi soup.”
Alternative forms edit
Synonyms edit
- (dish of yams etc): choke-me (Caribbean)
References edit
- Frederic Gomes Cassidy and Robert Brock Le Page (editors), Dictionary of Jamaican English, Second Edition, University of the West Indies Press (2002), page 185.
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Japanese ふふ (fufu, onomatopoeia for the sound of laughter; compare English haha).
Interjection edit
fufu
Bura edit
Noun edit
fufu
References edit
- Schuh, Russel G.; Shalanguwa, Elisha. Bura-English-Hausa Dictionary
Krio edit
Etymology edit
From any of various African languages that share this word.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fùfú