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bembé

See also: bembe

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Noun edit

bembé (uncountable)

  1. A common bell rhythm in sub-Saharan Africa.

Saramaccan edit

Etymology edit

Probably from Kongo vémbe (“purslane”), Kimbundu m-bembe (“purslane”).[1]

Noun edit

bembé

  1. common purslane, Portulaca oleracea[2]

References edit

  1. ^ Norval Smith (2015) “A preliminary list of probable Kikongo (KiKoongo) lexical items in the Surinam Creoles”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 428
  2. ^ Tinde van Andel, Sofie Ruysschaert (2011) Medicinale en rituele planten van Suriname [Medicinal and ritual plants of Suriname], Amsterdam: KIT Publishers, NCB Naturalis, page 410
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