akara

Borrowed from Yoruba àkàrà. Doublet of accra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈæk.əɹ.ə/, /-ɑɹ-/, /-ɑ/

akara (plural akara)

1. (Nigeria) A bean cake, made of fried black-eyed pea flour.
   • 2013, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah, Anchor Books (2014), page 547:

     Why are you buying akara that you don't want?

• acara (obsolete)

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akara

1. macaw (clarification of this definition is needed)

From akaanu (“cook”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

akara

1. cooked

• Lindskoog, John N., Lindskoog, Carrie A. (1964) Vocabulario cayapa (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 9)‎ (in Spanish), Quito, Ecuador: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en cooperación con el Ministerio de Educación Pública, page 61

From Yoruba àkàrà.

• IPA^(key): /ʔà.kà.ɽà/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔà.kə̀.ɽə̀]

àkàrà m (possessed form àkàràn)

1. a deep-fried bean cake

   Synonym: ƙōsai

akara

1. Alternative form of akala

From Yoruba àkàrà.

• IPA^(key): /à.kà.rà/

àkàrà

1. a kind of cake made from rice flour and banana

akara

1. first/third-person singular imperfect active of karoti (“to do”)

• IPA^(key): [akaˈra]

akara

1. fried banana slices

• “akara” in 2012, Vanessa Pinheiro de Araújo, Um Dicionário Principense-Português.

• aakara

Borrowed from Yoruba àkàrà.

• IPA^(key): /ʔakara/

akara (definite form akara bi)

1. bean cake, fried bean flour

• ìkàrà (Ijesha)
• ị̀kàrà, ụ̀kàrà (Ekiti)
• àkàà, ìkàà (Ondo)

• IPA^(key): /à.kà.ɾà/

àkàrà

1. a deep-fried ball made of beans

• àkàrà òyìnbó (“cake”)
• alákàrà (“akara seller”)

• → English: akara, accra
• → Hausa: akara
• → Igbo: akala, akara
• → Krio: akara
• → Portuguese: acarajé
• → Wolof: akara, aakara
• → Nupe: kàrà
• → Gbagyi: kala