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LEARN FOOD NAMES IN IGBO

                In this post, we are going to learn food names in Igbo. We are also going to learn some Igbo food names that I do not know the English equivalent of, for now😊

Let’s start with the word ‘food’, shall we?. Food is ‘nri’. Water is ‘mmiri’.

Breakfast, lunch, supper are ‘nri ụtụtụ’, ‘nri ehihie’ and ‘nri abalị’ respectively.

Food names in Igbo

*Abacha – boiled and sliced cassava. Normally eaten with coconut or made into a dish accompanied with Ụgba (Fermented oil bean seed)

African star apple - Ụdara

Apple - Ụdara bekee

Avocado – Ube bekee

Banana - Unere

Beans - Agwa

Bean balls/cakes - Akara

Bitter kola – Akụ ilu

Bitter leaf – Onugbu/Olugbu

Bitter leaf soup – Ofe Onugbu

Biscuits – Achịcha ọkpọọ

Bread – Achịcha

Breadfruit - Ụkwa

Cake – Achịcha ụtọ

Cassava – Akpụ

Chicken -Anụ ọkụkọ

Corn - ọka

Coconut – Akụ bekee/ Akụ oyibo

Cocoyam - Ede

Egg - Akwa

Fish – Azụ

Fruits – Mkpụrụosisi

Garden egg -Aṅara

Goat meat – Anụ ewu

Groundnut/peanut – Ahụekere

Honey – Mmanụ aṅụ

Kolanut - Ọjị

Lime – Oroma nkịrịsị/Epe nkịrị

Meat – Anụ

Melon - Egusi

Melon soup – Egusi soup

Milk – Mmiri ara ehi

*Moimoi – Steamed bean paste savoury dish

Mushroom - Ero

Oil – Mmanụ

Oil bean seed - Ụgba/Ụkpaka

Okro - Ọkwụrụ

Okro soup – Ofe ọkwụrụ

Onions – Ayọ/Yabasị

Orange – Oroma/Epe

Palm kernel – Akụ/akị

Palm nut – Akwụ/Nkwụ

Palm nut soup – Ofe akwụ

Palm oil – mmanụ nri/mmanụ nni

Pap – Akamụ

Pear – Ube (note this is Nigerian pear)

Pepper - Ose

Plantain – Abịrịka

Potato - Nduku

Pounded yam – Nri ji/Nni ji

Processed cassava – Garri (this is eaten with soup eg ofe egusi etc)

Rice - Osikapa

Salt - Nnu

Soup - Ofe

Turkey meat – Anụ Torotoro

*Ujiri – A fruit

*Ụgụ - Vegetable. I think it’s Fluted Pumpkin but I am not sure

*Ụha – Vegetable. Used to make Ụha soup (Ofe ụha)

*Ụgbọgịrị - Vegetable. I think it’s pumpkin but I am not sure

Vegetables – Akwụkwọ nri (the general term for any leafy green vegetable)

Yam  - Ji

Bonus: cooking utensils and kitchen items

Cooking spoon/ladle - Ngaji ofe

Cup - Iko

Cooker/Burner - Ekwu

Fork - Ndụdụ

Knife - Mma

Mortar - Ikwe

Pestle - Ọdụ/Aka odo

Plate - Efere

Pot - Ite

Pot cover - Okwuchi ite

Spoon - Ngaji

Sieve - Nyọ

Wooden ladle - Eku

 

Sources: My head😊, Igbo dictionary for children by Yvonne Mbanefo, Google, Youtube