"Kijiko cha chakula"

Translation: A tablespoon

[Martin633120]

In an Tanzanian context, "kijiko" means a spoon you use to eat with or to stir your tea with. I'm sure the most sensible correct translation for "kijiko cha chakula" is "(a/the) spoonful of food".

[vtopphol]

What?? How could a spoon be filled with a meal? This doesn't make sense at all.

EDIT: Thankfully, this comment has now become obsolete.

[Leigh_Anne_]

I think chakula can mean either a meal or just food generally!

[vtopphol]

I know it can, but that translation was not accepted, and "The spoon is filled with meal" was the suggested translation.

[AGreatUserName]

Up above, it says "a spoon of food" ...

[margamanterola]

I've reported this

[danieljbuyinza]

Hey guys, I think that I may have gotten it...
You know how there's a Tablespoon, and a Teaspoon. And we usually use the Tablespoon for eating food, and the Teaspoon for the sugar that goes in our tea.

Well, perhaps here they were implying..."The spoon for food".

[danieljbuyinza]

In other words...Tablespoon.

[Babu-G]

I suppose it could mean "A spoonful of food"

[_Coconuts_]

But really everyone just says kijiko... Cha chakula is unnecessary

[vtopphol]

Just like in English. You usually just say spoon, except for when you need to be precise. In cooking, for example, when you need to know for measurements; or if you got a teaspoon, but what you really needed was a tablespoon.

[phb2013]

Does this refer to a spoon that you eat with, or a measuring spoon? Or could it be either?

[vtopphol]

It's not a big one. Kijiko is the diminutive form of the word mwiko, which is a large spoon used for cooking. Kijiko is for eating.

[MfonUdoiny]

"Cha chakula" sounds pleasant.

[Tristin988397]

Shouldn't it be meza instead of chakula?

[machieng]

translations are not always that literal