kahũa

Kikuyu

Alternative forms

kahua^[1]

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili kahawa,^[2] ultimately from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kàhó(w)áꜜ/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 7 with a disyllabic stem, together with njata, and so on.

(Kiambu)

(Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including biribiri, cibũ (“chief”), gĩkabũ (pl. ikabũ), gĩtara, ithanwa, ithandũkũ, kĩng'aurũ, mũthigari, mũthũ, mwatũka, mbũkũ, ndigithũ, njata, rũbutu (pl. mbutu), thaburia, and so on.^[3]

Noun

kahũa class 12

coffee,^[2]^[3] including the plant (Coffea arabica)^[1]
mũgũnda wa kahũa ― coffee estate^[2]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Beentje, H.J. (1994). Kenya Trees, Shrubs and Lianas. Nairobi, Kenya: National Museum of Kenya. →ISBN
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 “kahũa” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 173. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 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.

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