nk-áwáí
meat, defatted
noun
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Definition
Meat cooked so that fat is extracted from it (though the meat is still quite fatty), typically from the tail of a sheep; fried fatty meat.
In a sentence
Áaɨtɨrɨkɨtâ nkáwâ.
The fatty meats have nauseated me. (SN)
Notes
Lexicon marks this form as North.
Where this comes from
- Source
- Payne & Ole-Kotikash, Maa Dictionary (U. Oregon, 2005)
- Dialect
- Kenyan Maa (Keekonyokie/Purko/Wuasinkishu) - North