pomben.

1625 tr. J. dos Sanctos Aethiopia Orientalis in S. Purchas Pilgrimes ix. xii. 1538 Both Cafres and Portugals are entertained by him with wine of Mays, or their wheate, called Pombe, which they must drinke, although against stomacke, not to contemne the Kings bountie.

1789 W. Paterson Narr. Four Journeys Country of Hottentots 92 They also bake bread of their own corn... But this grain is mostly used for making punch, called by some of them Pombie, which is strong and intoxicating.

1860 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. I. iii. 95 Grain is so abundant that the inhabitants [of Zungomero] exist almost entirely upon the intoxicating pombe, or holcus-beer.

1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent I. vii. 151 The great jar of froth-topped pombé is then brought up.

1935 H. Thurnwald in R. C. Thurnwald Black & White in E. Afr. iv. 158 The brewing of beer (pombe) is not done by women everywhere. It is a complicated process requiring time and performed especially for feasts.

1952 Chambers's Jrnl. May 278/1 The local fermented beverage will be flowing freely—be it coconut pombe, or barley talla, or honey tej, depending on where in Africa the ceremony is taking place.

1966 C. Sweeney Scurrying Bush v. 67 The local beer, called pombe, and made, in this case, from sorghum grain.

1977 D. Beaty Excellency iv. 54 A big black policeman with breath that smelled strongly of banana pombe.

2001 A. Shreve Last Time they Met 150 Thomas..accepted a gourd of pombe, a beer of bananas and sugar he'd had before.