Kikuyu edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Bantu *mbúdà. Hinde (1904) records mburra as an equivalent of English rain in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba mbua and Swahili mvua as its equivalents.[1]

Pronunciation edit

As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into mbori class which includes mbũri, ikinya (pl. makinya), itimũ, kĩhaato, maguta, mbembe, mũgeka, mũrata, nyaga, ũhoro, riitho, riũa, rũrĩmĩ, Kamau (man's name), etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun edit

mbura class 9

  1. rain[2]

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

(Nouns)

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 48–49. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  3. ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.
  • “mbura” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Swahili edit

Pronunciation edit

  • (file)

Noun edit

mbura (m-mi class, plural mibura)

  1. mobola plum (tree)