mchele

Swahili

mchele

Etymology

Possibly from Indo-Aryan. Compare Bengali চাউল (caul), Hindi चावल (cāval).

Pronunciation

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Noun

mchele class III (plural michele class IV)

1. dehusked, uncooked rice
2. (slang, Kenya) roofie (a drug used to make someone drowsy or disoriented)

Descendants

• Kikuyu: mũceere
• Rwanda-Rundi: umuceri

See also

• mpunga (raw unhusked rice)
• wali (cooked rice)
• (Cereals) nafaka; shayiri (“barley”), mahindi (“maize”), ulezi (“millet”), oti (“oats”), mchele (“husked rice”) / mpunga (“unhusked rice”) / wali (“cooked rice”), ngano nyekundu (“rye”), mtama (“sorghum”), ngano (“wheat”) ^{(Category: sw:Grains) [edit]}