"Tomato"

Translation: Nyanya

[syntyche1981]

I'd love to know how a tomato became nyanya.

[Dying_Star]

Fact. In Kenya we call our grandmothers nyanya. :) In Tanz. they call them bibi. Which is funny because bibi in Kenya means wife. Lol!

[juryrigging]

So you call your grandmothers tomatoes, and they call their grandmothers "wife". I'm not sure which country's grandmothers get the better deal. ;)

[Jeremy529594]

Or, maybe, do you mean how a nyanya became a tomato?

[KevinMacDo286807]

In Zanzibar Portuguese word is used for tomato: tungule