cooja

noun

1. A wide-mouthed earthenware vessel for water.

   Let us take a peep into the bechoba. All hushed and quiet. A piece of camp able close to the tent wall, and on it a tumbler of cocoanut [sic] oil, with a lighted wick floating on the surface. Here, also, a watch, a cheroot case, and cooja of drinking-water standing on a broken soup-plate.

Where it comes from

From Hindi कूज़ा (kūzā), from Persian کوزه (kuza).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry cooja (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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