canje

Presumably from Portuguese canja, from Malayalam കഞ്ഞി (kaññi). Semantically, possibly influenced by English congee (especially sense 2), ultimately also from the Malayalam source.

canje

1. chicken soup, chicken broth
2. any kind of broth with rice

   canje branco ― simple broth with rice (literally, “white chicken broth”)

   canje fula papaia ― broth with papaya blossom

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#c

Deverbal from canjear.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkanxe/ [ˈkãŋ.xe]
• Rhymes: -anxe
• Syllabification: can‧je

canje m (plural canjes)

1. swap, exchange

   Synonym: intercambio

• “canje”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024