Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary

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  • itshe"
    Language code: S42 Language: zulu
    Translation: grinding stone
  • imbiza"
    Language code: S42 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
  • &ukh`amb`a
    Language code: S42 Language: zulu
    Translation: drinking vessel, usually barrel shaped, about 7 inches in height and 6 inches over the rim / beer pot, required for serving and drinking of beer and milk
  • umcakulo"
    Language code: S42 Language: zulu
    Translation: pot shaped like a pudding basin, used for eating food
  • uphiso"
    Language code: S42 Language: zulu
    Translation: spherical pot with a short vertical neck. Usually it is from 8 to 12 inches in diameter. It is used for carrying beer and water / urn-shaped vessel for liquids
  • ikhanzi"
    Language code: S42 Language: zulu
    Translation: spherical pot with a wide mouth, it is about 9 inches in diameter and it is used for cooking food
  • udiwo
    Language code: S42 Language: zulu
    Translation: pot used to serve the meat and vegetable which accompagny the sadza / drinking -pot, pot for holding sweet milk or sour milk
  • i(li)daka/amadaka"
    Language code: S42 Language: zulu
    Translation: 1. hard humus in cattle kraal beneath the surface dung, composed of dung and earth; 2. prepared lump of cattle dung for fuel
  • isitsha;
    Language code: S42 Language: zulu
    Translation: vessel, receptacle, dish, plate, utensil
  • udoNgo"
    Language code: S42 Language: zulu
    Translation: clay
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