dika bread

9.9

A soft brown paste made from roasted wild mango seeds used as food and to thicken soups

noun

South African

: pan de dika

Villagers prepared dika bread by roasting, grinding, and shaping the mango seeds into a paste.

Examples

In parts of West Africa, dika bread is added to soups as a thickener and flavoring.
She brought home some dika bread after her trip to Cameroon to share with her family.
I love to eat dika bread with my meals.
The dika bread has a unique flavor.
In parts of West Africa, dika bread is added to soups as a thickener and flavoring.
She brought home some dika bread after her trip to Cameroon to share with her family.
Villagers prepared dika bread by roasting, grinding, and shaping the mango seeds into a paste.

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Surface Forms

dika bread singular

dika breads plural

Morphology

dika + bread

The compound 'dika bread' transparently signals a food item (bread/paste) made from 'dika' (the tree/fruit). While the precise preparation (grinding and heating seeds) is specific cultural knowledge, a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer it refers to a food product derived from dika, following common noun+bread compounding patterns cross-linguistically.

Etymology

Dika bread comes from West Africa, where people roast and grind the seeds of the wild mango, called dika, into a firm paste that is shaped like a bread. Because this paste is eaten and used to make soups thicker, the name now means this seed paste, a 'staple food' and 'thickener' in some places.