Sentence examples for Zomi from inspiring English sources

Hot, sweet and spicy, red red pairs beans with fried plantains and zomi (red palm oil).

Onions and (red) chilli are fried in zomi and added to black-eyed peas, then topped with more zomi and gari (fermented dried cassava powder).

The key to red red is one of the reds: zomi has a rich, nutty taste.

Kelvin Hatlang, spokesman for one hill-based group, the Zomi Revolutionary Organisation, says that to maintain an army of 500 militants it taxes working Manipuri Zomis, a group split between India, Myanmar and Bangladesh, 4% of their salaries.

[5] From "zomi," in some local languages the term for "highlander".

The wider region it inhabits has a name, given to it in 2002 by a Dutch professor, Willem van Schendel: it's called Zomia, derived from the word Zomi, which means "highlander" in several of the languages spoken here, as Frank Jacobs wrote recently in The New York Times.