mũembe
Kikuyu edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Swahili embe.[2]
Pronunciation edit
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a disyllabic stem, together with gĩcũhĩ, njũi, and so on.
Noun edit
mũembe class 3 (plural mĩembe)
- mango-tree[2] (Mangifera indica)
Meronyms edit
- (fruit) iembe
References edit
- ^ Maundu, Patrick and Bo Tengnäs (eds.) (2005). Useful Trees and Shrubs for Kenya, p. 294. Nairobi, Kenya: World Agroforestry Centre—Eastern and Central Africa Regional Programme (ICRAF-ECA). →ISBN Accessed online 28 November 2019 via http://old.worldagroforestry.org/usefultrees
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “mũembe” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 88. Oxford: Clarendon Press.