cooja

English

Alternative forms

• coojah, koojah, kooza, kuza

Etymology

From Hindi कूज़ा (kūzā), from Persian کوزه (kuza).

Noun

cooja (plural coojas)

1. (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

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “cooja”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 248.