Akara

//ˈæk.əɹ.ə// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A bean cake, made of fried black-eyed pea flour. Nigeria

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

Example

More examples

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Yoruba àkàrà. Doublet of accra.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.