chesanyama, noun

/ˈtʃiːzaˌnjama/
Forms:
Also chisa nyama, tshisa-nyama.
Origin:
Fanakalo, isiZuluShow more Fanakalo, literally ‘hot meat’, from isiZulu shisa to be hot, to make hot + inyama meat.
In urban (mainly township) English: an eating house at which cheap meals are sold. Also attributive.
1975 K.M.C. Motsisi in Drum 8 Mar. 56I don’t mind seeing as I take a curtain-raiser at the Tshong’s chesa nyama’s shop on my way to this place of Aunt Peggy.
1980 M. Matshoba in M. Mutloatse Forced Landing 124Fridays they did not dine together. Everyone ate an almost substantial meal in one of the city ‘chesanyamas’ and returned to the hostel replete.
1981 Pace Sept. 81We went to the pass office and several ‘Chisa nyama’ restaurants to put our play together.
1982 D. Mqhaba in Chapman & Dangor Voices from Within 174The plates must be of aluminium, The spoons, big, round and rusty...Let a Bantu man call it Tshisa-nyama...It is a restaurant solely for Bantus.
1986 Learn & Teach No.2, 31I have no-one to cook for me, so I come to the chisanyama to buy myself food...The other reason is that I meet most of my friends right here..the only place we meet is here at chisanyama.
1993 B. Khumalo in Weekly Mail & Guardian 10 Dec. 45A tshisanyama is a feature of South African society that is found in industrial areas. These are..owned mostly by immigrants...The clientele in these establishments is mostly black. These shops tend to be filthy and customers have to shout at the top of their lungs when they buy.
an eating house at which cheap meals are sold. Also attributive.
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