awaze

English

Etymology

From Amharic አዋዜ (ʾäwaze).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑˈwɑ.zeɪ/,[1] /ɑˈwɑ.zi/

Noun

awaze (uncountable)

  1. A spicy sauce or paste, made with chili peppers and usually reddish in colour, used in Ethiopian and Eritrean cuisine.

, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 21:

Today her short fingernails are tinged yellow from turmeric, on the back of her wrist a dot of awaze, the red pepper paste gleaming like fresh blood.

See also

References

  1. ^ Naomi Wise, The Ambassador of Abyssinia, in the San Diego Reader (2009 March 18)
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.