emboro

Tooro

Etymology

From Common Bantu *dʊ̀bódó. Cognate with Swahili mboo, Chichewa mbólo and Zulu ū́bolo.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /embôɾo/

Noun

emboro class 9 (plural emboro class 10, augmentless mboro, plural augmentless mboro)

1. penis

Hypernyms

• obusura (“gentalia”)

Derived terms

• omutwe gw'emboro (“glans penis”, literally “the head of a penis”)
• ekisusu ky'emboro (“prepuce, foreskin”, literally “the (tree) bark of a penis”)

See also

• igosi (“scrotum; testicle”)
• emana (“vagina”)

References

• Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary‎^[1], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 13