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   Gumbo = okra   
      
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   Gumbo < ngombo @ Mbundu Ctl Afr Bantu : okra   
   soup thickened with okra, 1805, from Louisiana French, probably ultimately   
   from Central Bantu dialect (compare Mbundu ngombo "okra"). Also used for "the   
   creole patois of Louisiana" (1838).   
      
   Okra < nkruma @ Akan W Afr Ghana : okra   
   vegetable cultivated in the East and West Indies and southern U.S., 1670s,   
   from a West African language (compare Akan nkruma "okra").   
      
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