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Nyama Choma, kashata, Chips Mayai & other words have been added to the English Dictionary

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Vipi Kenya July 15, 2022
Updated 2022/08/31 at 5:33 PM
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Wikimedia Commons– Nyama choma is grilled meat – usually goat or sheep. It is grilled over an open fire. It is usually eaten with ugali and kachumbari.


Nyama Choma, has been added to the English dictionary.

It’s one of 200 new and revised entries from East African English that made it in the latest update of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

The meal, often used to describe roasted meat cooked over an open flame is a favorite in entertainment spots, and Kenyans just can’t help but munch on it along with ugali and perhaps some kachumbari on the side.

It is receiving an international nod now that the Oxford English Dictionary has added it to its list of words.


It’s one of 200 new and revised entries from East African English in the latest update of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The OED is one of the most respected sources for the language,” the BBC reports.

The report notes that other famous East African meals have made it to the widely respected dictionary, including chips mayai and…drumroll, chapo!


Chapo – a thin pancake of unleavened wholemeal bread cooked on a griddle. Chips mayai – in Tanzanian and Kenyan cooking – a thick omelette having fried potatoes mixed in with the eggs during cooking, served open rather than folded,” BBC breaks down Oxford’s definition of some of the new words.

Katogo, a Ugandan dish described as “matoke boiled in a pot with other ingredients” has also made the cut.

There are more words and phrases popular in Kenya that have also been added to the dictionary. These include sambaza, oyee and collabo.

Sambaza meaning “to share or send something” is now in the OED, along with tarmacking which is “the action or process of walking the streets looking for work”.

Collabo can now be used, in a grammatically correct way, to describe working with someone.

‘Oyee!’, on the other hand is used when one is celebrating.

Jembe, Sheng, and come-we-stay are also on the new list released on the OED’s website.

 tarmacking which is “the action or process of walking the streets looking for work”


East African English words recently recorded in the OED

  • asante sana, int. and n.
  • collabo, v.
  • come-we-stay, adj.
  • jembe, n.
  • nyama choma, n.
  • pressed, adj.1
  • sambaza, v.
  • Sheng, n.3 and adj.
  • tarmac, v.
  • unprocedural, adj.

See the full list of East African English words most recently added to the OED here.


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