Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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  • piza;
    Language: lozi Translation: pot
  • imbiza
    Language: ngoni Translation: pot not yet burnt in the fire
  • mbita/timbita"
    Language: ndau, khambana, tsonga, copi Translation: pot without a neck, used for cooking, or if small for medicine. Timbita are also sometimes used like the maseku to support a cooking-pot. These pots have no necks, so that it is easier to stir the food when it is being cooked.
  • pitsa
    Language: tswana Translation: pot
  • pitsana
    Language: Northern Sotho (Sepedi) Translation: small pot used for cooking spinach, similar to the last but about 4,5 inches in height and 5 inches over the rim.
  • pitsa
    Language: Northern Sotho (Sepedi) Translation: a spherical pot for holding water with a slightly concave neck, of various sizes up to 10 inches in height and 12 inches over the rim. These pots are usually decorated.
  • (n)pits&a/di(n)pits&a
    Language: southern Sotho Translation: pot, kastrol
  • lefitsoana"
    Language: southern Sotho Translation: pot for eating porridge, used for other purposes as well
  • imbiza
    Language: xhosa (mpondo) Translation: very large barrel-shaped pot with cut rims. Height 58-62 cm. Undecorated with exception of rim which may be notched. Bound with bark cord to strenghten. Used for fermenting and storing beer. Formely an earthen pot for cooking as distinguished form an iron one / a beer pot about 3 ft. high and 2 ft. diameter.
  • imbiza"
    Language: zulu Translation: any large pot, but more particulary for the large spherical pots used in the brewing of beer. These may be as much as two feet in diameter/ the largest of the traditional pots, undecorated, used for cooking and capable of holding up to 40 litres of fermented utshwala, the sorghum-derived traditional beer
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