English
akara
Akara comes from Yoruba àkàrà ‘a deep-fried ball made of beans’.
- Yorubamodernàkàrà‘a deep-fried ball made of beans’
- Englishearliest quotation 2013akara
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Yorubamodernàkàrà‘a deep-fried ball made of beans’
- Englishearliest quotation 2013akara
Earliest quotation: 2013, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah: “Why are you buying akara that you don't want?”
Linked words
through Yoruba àkàrà ‘a deep-fried ball made of beans’
Today it means
noun A bean cake, made of fried black-eyed pea flour.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Yoruba àkàrà / akara