Bread, cheese, meat and other everyday foods in Swahili, with English translations.
| English | Swahili | |
|---|---|---|
| food | chakula | |
| bread | mkate | |
| rice | mchele | |
| pasta | — | |
| noodle | — | |
| cheese | jibini | |
| egg | yai | |
| meat | nyama | |
| chicken | kuku | |
| beef | nyama ya ng'ombe | |
| pork | nyama ya nguruwe | |
| lamb | nyama ya kondoo | |
| fish | samaki | |
| sausage | soseji | |
| ham | hemu | |
| soup | supu | |
| salad | saladi | |
| sandwich | sandwichi | |
| pizza | piza | |
| hamburger | — | |
| butter | siagi | |
| oil | mafuta | |
| salt | chumvi | |
| pepper | pilipili manga | |
| sugar | sukari | |
| honey | asali | |
| jam | jemu | |
| flour | unga | |
| chocolate | chokoleti | |
| cake | keki | |
| biscuit | biskuti | |
| ice cream | aiskrimu | |
| yogurt | maziwa ya mgando | |
| breakfast | chakula cha asubuhi | |
| lunch | chakula cha mchana | |
| dinner | chakula cha jioni | |
| meal | mlo | |
| snack | kitafunio | |
| dessert | kitindamlo | |
3 of 39 entries are still missing in Swahili (—) or have no direct equivalent.