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akìlịkō

Noun

Ndebe script



Meanings

  1. peeling or scraping of roasted yam; food burnt in cooking

    Noun
  2. dry yam plant (external stem which looks like rope and which when twined into a bundle resembles a sponge, sometimes used for hard scrubbing)

    Noun

Dialect & variants

No other variants have been documented for this word.

Examples

Akìlịkō ji ahụ ka anyị tara.

— We scraped off the burnt part of that roasted yam.

E nwere akìlịkō n'ite nri a.

— There is burnt food in this pot.

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